D. Matsunaga

Mutual interplay of actin meshwork and stress fibers in cellular adaptive response: Insights from percolation dynamics

The paper uses percolation theory to show how actin filaments form stress fibers through stochastic interactions, with assembly influenced by preexisting actin meshwork and disassembly independent of it.

A model explaining environmental stiffness-dependent migration of fibroblasts with a focus on maturation of intracellular structures

The paper develops a mathematical model to explain how fibroblast migration velocity depends on substrate stiffness through changes in stress fiber maturation and contractile force.

Analysis of chemical and mechanical behaviors in living cells by continuum mechanics-based FRAP

This study develops a continuum mechanics-based model to analyze long-term FRAP responses, revealing spatially distinct molecular turnover rates and mechanical properties in living cells.

A model for determining the length distribution of actin filaments in cells

The paper develops a theoretical model to determine the length distribution of actin filaments that maintains cellular tensional homeostasis by optimizing entropic quantities under constraints of actin molecules and tension.

Long-term molecular turnover of actin stress fibers revealed by advection-reaction analysis in fluorescence recovery after photobleaching

This study develops a new FRAP model to analyze long-term molecular turnover, revealing that advection and chemical reaction rates are comparable in actin stress fibers.

Wrinkle force microscopy: a new machine learning based approach to predict cell mechanics from images

This paper introduces a machine learning method to predict cellular forces from microscope images by training on wrinkle patterns and traction force data.

Determining the domain-level reaction-diffusion properties of cellular proteins by incorporating genetic engineering to FRAP-based framework

This paper introduces a FRAP-based framework with genetic engineering to determine domain-level reaction and diffusion properties of proteins, demonstrating its application to transgelin-2.