Recent Insights on Biosystems
Morphological puzzles of the endoplasmic reticulum explained by effective membrane tension.
Leaflet tensions control the spatio-temporal remodeling of lipid bilayers and nanovesicles.
Remodeling of biomembranes and vesicles by condensate droplets,
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Engulfment and endocytosis of condensate droplets at the nanoscale.
Small His-tagged fluorophores are quenched by Ni-containing anchor lipids.
Membrane necks are crucial for budding and division of both nanovesicles and giant vesicles.
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Budding and fission of nanovesicles via membrane adsorption of small solutes.
Giant vesicles coupled to Min proteins undergo cyclic changes of spontaneous curvature.
Mechanical tension of biomembranes is accessible to super-resolution (STED) microscopy.
Division of cell-sized vesicles can be controlled by low densities of membrane-bound proteins.
Simple sugars shape giant vesicles into multispheres with many membrane necks.
Membrane necks experience curvature-induced constriction forces that can cleave the necks.
Collective force generation by molecular motors Is determined by strain-induced unbinding.
Shape transformations of nanovesicles reflect the individual tensions of their membrane leaflets.
Bilayer membranes with frequent flip flops have tensionless leaflets.
Molecular motors of the same polarity share their load almost equally.
Understanding and controlling the morphological complexity of biomembranes.
Membrane-bound gycosylphosphatidyl-inositol (GPI) anchors "flop down'' onto the membranes.
Nanodroplets at membranes create tight-lipped membrane necks via negative line tension.
Biomembranes exposed to asymmetric ionic conditions prefer high curvatures.
Lipids with bulky head groups generate large membrane curvatures by small compositional asymmetries.
Curvature elasticity and multi-sphere morphologies of giant vesicles.
Domes and cones: Adhesion-induced fission of membranes by ESCRT proteins.
Decomposition of time-dependent fluorescence signals reveals position-dependent kinetics of protein synthesis.
Budding of giant vesicles induced by photo-responsive azobenzene derivatives.
Cooperative binding of "marker of self" CD47 to macrophage receptor SIRPα.
Generation of bilayer asymmetry and spontaneous curvature by the glycolipid GM1.
Membrane nanotubes increase the robustness of giant vesicles.
Response of membranes and vesicles to capillary forces arising from liquid droplets.
Multiple in-buds are formed by the sequential adsorption of only two ESCRT proteins.
Sequential bottom-up assembly of mechanically stabilized synthetic cells by microfluidics.
Nanoparticles in contact with vesicles: energy landscapes and curvature-induced forces.
Tug-of-war between two elastically coupled molecular motors.
Stabilization of membrane necks by adhesive particles, substrate surfaces, and constriction forces.
Membrane curvature generated by asymmetric depletion layers.
Patterns of flexible nanotubes formed by liquid-ordered and liquid-disordered membranes.
Adhesive nanoparticles as local probes of membrane curvature.
Protein synthesis in E. coli: Dependence of codon-specific elongation on tRNA concentration and codon usage.
Critical particle sizes for the engulfment of nanoparticles by membranes and vesicles with bilayer asymmetry.
Spontaneous curvature of bilayer membranes from molecular simulations: Asymmetric lipid densities and asymmetric adsorption.