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Membrane curvature induced by proximity of anionic phospholipids can initiate endocytosis
Nature Communications, 2017 The plasma membrane is enriched in phosphatidylserine (PtdSer) mostly localized at the inner leaflet, which is predicted to induce membrane curvature.
Takashi Hirama +6 more
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Modeling Membrane Morphological Change during Autophagosome Formation
iScience, 2020 Summary: Autophagy is an intracellular degradation process that is mediated by de novo formation of autophagosomes. Autophagosome formation involves dynamic morphological changes; a disk-shaped membrane cisterna grows, bends to become a cup-shaped ...
Yuji Sakai +4 more
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Membrane-mediated interactions between disk-like inclusions adsorbed on vesicles
Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Self-assembly of membrane inclusions plays a key role in biological processes such as cellular signalling and trafficking and has potential applications for designing interfacial devices such as sensors and actuators.
Elnaz Alizadeh-Haghighi +3 more
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Interactions of human islet amyloid polypeptide with lipid structure of different curvatures
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 2020 : Curvature is one of the most important features of lipid membranes in living cells, which significantly influences the structure of lipid membranes and their interaction with proteins.
Le Mei +5 more
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The membrane inclusions curvature equations
Advances in Applied Mathematics, 2003 We examine a system of equations arising in biophysics whose solutions are believed to represent the stable positions of $N$ conical proteins embedded in a cell membrane. Symmetry considerations motivate two equivalent refomulations of the system which allow the complete classification of solutions for small $N
Faugère, Jean-Charles +2 more
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Anisotropic Membrane Curvature Sensing by Amphipathic Peptides [PDF]
Biophysical Journal, 2016 Many proteins and peptides have an intrinsic capacity to sense and induce membrane curvature, and play crucial roles for organizing and remodelling cell membranes. However, the molecular driving forces behind these processes are not well understood.
Gómez-Llobregat, Jordi +2 more
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Continuum Electromechanical Modeling of Protein-Membrane Interaction
, 2010 A continuum electromechanical model is proposed to describe the membrane curvature induced by electrostatic interactions in a solvated protein-membrane system.
Alemayehu A. Gorfe +4 more
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The influence of solid scaffolds on flat and curved lipid membranes
AIP Advances, 2017 Solid-supported membranes have become a common tool to study lipid membrane properties in a controlled environment. One particular example is the study of membrane curvature and its effect on lipid sorting.
D. H. de Jong, A. Heuer
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Single Lipid Molecule Dynamics on Supported Lipid Bilayers with Membrane Curvature
Membranes, 2017 The plasma membrane is a highly compartmentalized, dynamic material and this organization is essential for a wide variety of cellular processes. Nanoscale domains allow proteins to organize for cell signaling, endo- and exocytosis, and other essential ...
Philip P. Cheney +3 more
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Reliable estimation of membrane curvature for cryo-electron tomography.
PLoS Computational Biology, 2020 Curvature is a fundamental morphological descriptor of cellular membranes. Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) is particularly well-suited to visualize and analyze membrane morphology in a close-to-native state and molecular resolution.
Maria Salfer +4 more
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