Spontaneous buckling of contractile poroelastic actomyosin sheets.

ABSTRACT: Shape transitions in developing organisms can be driven by active stresses, notably, active contractility generated by myosin motors. The mechanisms generating tissue folding are typically studied in epithelia. There, the interaction between cells is also coupled to an elastic substrate, presenting a major difficulty for studying contraction induced folding. Here we study the contraction and buckling of active, initially homogeneous, thin elastic actomyosin networks isolated from bounding surfaces. The network behaves as a poroelastic material, where a flow of fluid is generated during contraction. Contraction starts at the system boundaries, proceeds into the bulk, and eventually leads to spontaneous buckling of the sheet at the periphery. The buckling instability resulted from system sel

SUBMITTER: Ideses Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6018151 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature