Books about cytoskeleton and cell movements: 1) Absolutely a must is a terrific book: Bray, D. (2002). Cell Movements (New York: Garland). 2) Books with math and physics: Boal, D. (2002). Mechanics of the Cell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Howard, J. (2001). Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer). Dill, K., and S. Bromberg (2003). Molecular Driving Forces: Statistical Thermodynamics in Chemistry and Biology (New York: Garland). %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% How it all started with math and actin and microtubules: Hill, T., and Kirschner, M. (1982). Bioenergetics and kinetics of microtubule and actin filament assembly and disassembly. Intl. Rev. Cytol. 78, 1-125 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Feynman's ratchet: Feynman, R., Leighton, R., and Sands, M. (1963). The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume 1 (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley). %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Acrosomal process: Olbris DJ, Herzfeld J. An analysis of actin delivery in the acrosomal process of thyone. Biophys J. 1999 Dec;77(6):3407-23. There is a model in this paper and references to biological papers and earlier modeling efforts. Oster, G., Perelson, A., and Tilney, L. (1982). A mechanical model for acrosomal extension in Thyone. J. Math. Biol 15, 259-265 Oster, G.F. (1984). On the crawling of cells. J Embryol Exp Morphol 83 Suppl, 329-364 Tilney, L.G., and Inoue, S. (1982). Acrosomal reaction of Thyone sperm. II. The kinetics and possible mechanism of acrosomal process elongation. J Cell Biol 93, 820-827 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Latest reviews/models of actin turnover in the lamellipod: Pollard, T.D., and Borisy, G.G. (2003). Cellular motility driven by assembly and disassembly of actin filaments. Cell 112, 453-465 Pollard, T., Blanchoin, L., and Mullins, R. (2001). Actin dynamics. Journal of Cell Science 114, 3-4 Pantaloni, D., Le Clainche, C., and Carlier, M.F. (2001). Mechanism of actin-based motility. Science 292, 1502-1506 Abraham, V.C., Krishnamurthi, V., Taylor, D.L., and Lanni, F. (1999). The actin-based nanomachine at the leading edge of migrating cells. Biophys J 77, 1721-1732 Mogilner, A., and Edelstein-Keshet, L. (2002). Regulation of actin dynamics in rapidly moving cells: a quantitative analysis. Biophys J 83, 1237-1258 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Force of actin protrusion: Theriot, J.A. (2000). The polymerization motor. Traffic 1, 19-28. Peskin, C.S., Odell, G.M., and Oster, G. (1993). Cellular motions and thermal fluctuations: the Brownian ratchet. Biophys. J. 65, 316-324 Mogilner, A., and Oster, G. (1996). The physics of lamellipodial protrusion. Euro. Biophs. J. 25, 47-53. Mogilner, A., and Oster, G. (1996). Cell motility driven by actin polymerization. Biophys. J. 71, 3030-3045. Mogilner, A., and Oster, G. (1999). The polymerization ratchet model explains the force-velocity relation for growing microtubules. Eur. J. Biophys. 28, 235-242. Mogilner, A., and Oster, G. (2003). Force Generation by Actin Polymerization II: The Elastic Ratchet and Tethered Filaments. Biophys J 84, 1591-1605 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Forces and movements in mitosis: Inoue, S., and Salmon, E.D. (1995). Force generation by microtubule assembly/disassembly in mitosis and related movements. Mol. Biol. Cell 6, 1619-1640. Howard, J., and Hyman, A.A. (2003). Dynamics and mechanics of the microtubule plus end. Nature 422, 753-758 J. M. Scholey, I. Brust-Mascher, A. Mogilner, Cell division, Nature , 422 , 746-752 (2003). %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Cool forces and movements in cell life: Mahadevan, L., and Matsudaira, P. (2000). Motility powered by supramolecular springs and ratchets. Science 288, 95-100 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Molecular motors: Mogilner, A., Elston, T., Wang, H.-Y., and Oster, G. (2002). Molecular motors: Theory and Examples. In Computational Cell Biology, C.P. Fall, E. Marland, J. Tyson and J. Wagner, eds. (NY: Springer), pp. 321-380. Oster, G., and Wang, H. (2003). Rotary protein motors. Trends in Cell Biology 13, 114-121. Schliwa, M. ed. (2002). Molecular Motors (Weinheim: Wiley-VCH). Oster, G. (2002). Darwin's motors. Nature 417, 25 Bustamante, C., Keller, D., and Oster, G. (2001). The physics of molecular motors. Acc. Chem. Res. 34, 412-420. Oster, G., and Wang, H. (2000). Reverse engineering a protein: The mechanochemistry of ATP synthase. BBA 1458, 482-510. Visscher, K., Schnitzer, M.J., and Block, S.M. (1999). Single kinesin molecules studied with a molecular force clamp. Nature 400, 184-189. Ruegg, C., Veigel, C., Molloy, J.E., Schmitz, S., Sparrow, J.C., and Fink, R.H. (2002). Molecular motors: force and movement generated by single myosin II molecules. News Physiol Sci 17, 213-218 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Listeria: Tilney, L.G., and Portnoy, D.A. (1989). Actin filaments and the growth, movement, and spread of the intracellular bacterial parasite, Listeria monocytogenes. J Cell Biol 109, 1597-1608 Cameron, L.A., Giardini, P.A., Soo, F.S., and Theriot, J.A. (2000). Secrets of actin-based motility revealed by a bacterial pathogen. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 1, 110-119 Loisel, T.P., Boujemaa, R., Pantaloni, D., and Carlier, M.F. (1999). Reconstitution of actin-based motility of Listeria and Shigella using pure proteins. Nature 401, 613-616 Goldberg, M.B. (2001). Actin-based motility of intracellular microbial pathogens. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 65, 595-626 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Angular organization of actin: Maly, I.V., and Borisy, G.G. (2001). Self-organization of a propulsive actin network as an evolutionary process. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98, 11324-11329 Civelecoglu, G. and Edelstein-Keshet, L. (1994) Modelling the dynamics of F-Actin in the cell, Bull. Math. Biol. 56 (4), 587-616. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Microtubules capturing chromosomes: Biggins, S., and Walczak, C.E. (2003). Captivating capture: how microtubules attach to kinetochores. Current Biology 13, R449-R460 Holy TE, Leibler S. Dynamic instability of microtubules as an efficient way to search in space. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1994 Jun 7;91(12):5682-5. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Models for dynamic instability: Flyvbjerg H, Holy TE, Leibler S. Stochastic dynamics of microtubules: A model for caps and catastrophes. Phys Rev Lett. 1994 Oct 24;73(17):2372-2375. Dogterom M, Leibler S. Physical aspects of the growth and regulation of microtubule structures. Phys Rev Lett. 1993 Mar 1;70(9):1347-1350. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% This was the seminal paper on cell crawling: Abercrombie, M. (1980). The Croonian lecture, 1978. The crawling movement of metazoan cells. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 207, 129-147. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Note: all my papers can be downloaded from: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~mogilner/Mitosis.html http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~mogilner/CellMov.html http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~mogilner/Patterns.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Rippling in Myxobacteria: Our paper and movies are at: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~mogilner/Patterns.html Mathematical model that I cannot understand is: Frithjof Lutscher and Angela Stevens Emerging patterns in a hyperbolic model for locally interacting cell systems. Journal of Nonlinear Science (2002), Vol. 12, No. 6, 619-640. Cell Automata model: Uwe Borner, Andreas Deutsch, Hans Reichenbach and Markus Bar Rippling patterns in aggregates of myxobacteria arise from cell-cell collisions Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, #7 pp 078101-1 - 078101-4 (2002) (see pdf file RipplingCM) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Angular order in actin network: Edelstein-Keshet, L., G.B. Ermentrout (1990) Models for contact mediated pattern formation: cells that form parallel arrays, J. Math. Biol. 29: 33-58. Civelecoglu, G. and Edelstein-Keshet, L. (1994) Modelling the dynamics of F-Actin in the cell, Bull. Math. Biol. 56 (4), 587-616. Maly IV, Borisy GG. Self-organization of a propulsive actin network as an evolutionary process. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 98 (20), 11324-11329. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%