Positioning and Elongation of the Fission Yeast Spindle by Microtubule-Based Pushing

Flexural rigidity of microtubules and actin filaments measured from thermal fluctuations in shape.

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Thermal Fluctuations, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +18

Measurement of the Force-Velocity Relation for Growing Microtubules

Marileen Dogterom, Bernard Yurke · Science · 1997 · 581 citations

Engineering, Microrheology, Molecular Biology +18

Polarity controls forces governing asymmetric spindle positioning in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo

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Biology, Pattern Formation, Developmental Biology +8

A Mechanism for Nuclear Positioning in Fission Yeast Based on Microtubule Pushing

Phong T. Tran, Lorraine Marsh, Valérie Doye et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology · 2001 · 487 citations · Full text

Mts Grow, Molecular Biology, Cytoskeleton +18

Microtubules Orient the Mitotic Spindle in Yeast through Dynein-dependent Interactions with the Cell Cortex

Janet L. Carminati, Tim Stearns · The Journal of Cell Biology · 1997 · 468 citations · Full text