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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.128101
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- ANR [ANR-08-PCVI-0027]
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-08-PCVI-0027] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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When spreading onto a protein microlattice living cells spontaneously acquire simple shapes determined by the lattice geometry. This suggests that, on a lattice, living cells' shapes are in thermodynamic metastable states. Using a model at thermodynamic equilibrium we are able to reproduce the observed shapes. We build a phase diagram based on two adimensional parameters characterizing essential cellular properties involved in spreading: the cell's compressibility and fluctuations.
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