Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : October 30, 2018 - November 01, 2018
This paper describes a method of forming actin and myosin bundles in a microfluidic channel. We fabricated a Y-shaped microfluidic channel made of PDMS and glass Given the ATP and certain cation in the solvent, actin and myosin bound each other and induced condensation rapidly. We flew the actin and myosin solutions into the channel to examine the formation of actin-myosin filament. This approach would be effective to reconstruct self-assembled fibrous actin-myosin bundles for micro-scale actuators.
