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. 2021 Jul 17:27:101076.
doi: 10.1016/j.bbrep.2021.101076. eCollection 2021 Sep.

Types of potentials in a mitotic spindle

Yelena Nemchen  1 , Randal Hallford  1 , Preet Sharma  1
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Types of potentials in a mitotic spindle

Yelena Nemchen et al. Biochem Biophys Rep. .

Abstract

The dynamics of a mitotic spindle is very important to understand if the functioning of mitosis has to be understood and defined very accurately. There are a number of forces involved in such a process. Despite of the fact that there have been numerous studies done on the functioning of a mitotic spindle, there is still not a very precise understanding of this system and how it behaves. This study aims at understanding and expressing all the possible potentials which might be responsible in a mitotic spindle and its mechanism.

Keywords: Gay–Berne; Lennard-Jones; Mitotic spindle; Potentials.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Figures

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Mitotic Spindle .
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Lennard-Jones Potential. rm is the minimum r.
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Typical molecular structure displaying Lennard-Jones Potential.
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Fig. 4
Typical molecular structure displaying Gay–Berne Potential .
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