John, Karin; Caillerie, Denis; Peyla, Philippe; Ismail, Mourad; Raoult, Annie; Prost, Jacques; Misbah, Chaouqi Actin-based propulsion: intriguing interplay between material properties and growth processes. (English) Zbl 1404.92037 Chauvière, Arnaud et al., Cell mechanics. From single scale-based models to multiscale modeling. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press (ISBN 978-1-4200-9454-1/hbk; 978-1-4200-9455-8/ebook). Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology Series, 29-65 (2010). Summary: In this chapter we present recent experiments and concepts to understand the latter mechanism, the production of forces in the advancing edges of crawling cells or for the propulsion of intracellular organelles, which is also of fundamental interest for the medical and engineering sciences.For the entire collection see [Zbl 1183.92027]. MSC: 92C17 Cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.) 92C37 Cell biology 35Q92 PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{K. John} et al., in: Cell mechanics. From single scale-based models to multiscale modeling. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 29--65 (2010; Zbl 1404.92037) Full Text: arXiv