Fluid lipid membranes: From differential geometry to curvature stresses

M Deserno - Chemistry and physics of lipids, 2015 - Elsevier
A fluid lipid membrane transmits stresses and torques that are fully determined by its
geometry. They can be described by a stress-and torque-tensor, respectively, which yield …

[HTML][HTML] AFM for structure and dynamics of biomembranes

EI Goksu, JM Vanegas, CD Blanchette, WC Lin… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2009 - Elsevier
We review structure and dynamic measurements of biomembranes by atomic force
microscopy (AFM). We focus mainly on studies involving supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) …

Migrasome formation is mediated by assembly of micron-scale tetraspanin macrodomains

Y Huang, B Zucker, S Zhang, S Elias, Y Zhu… - Nature cell …, 2019 - nature.com
Migrasomes are recently discovered cellular organelles that form as large vesicle-like
structures on retraction fibres of migrating cells. While the process of migrasome formation …

Bilayer thickness mismatch controls domain size in model membranes

FA Heberle, RS Petruzielo, J Pan… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The observation of lateral phase separation in lipid bilayers has received considerable
attention, especially in connection to lipid raft phenomena in cells. It is widely accepted that …

Monolayer spontaneous curvature of raft-forming membrane lipids

B Kollmitzer, P Heftberger, M Rappolt, G Pabst - Soft matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Monolayer spontaneous curvatures for cholesterol, DOPE, POPE, DOPC, DPPC, DSPC,
POPC, SOPC, and egg sphingomyelin were obtained using small-angle X-ray scattering …

Production of isolated giant unilamellar vesicles under high salt concentrations

H Stein, S Spindler, N Bonakdar, C Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The cell membrane forms a dynamic and complex barrier between the living cell and its
environment. However, its in vivo studies are difficult because it consists of a high variety of …

Line tensions, correlation lengths, and critical exponents in lipid membranes near critical points

AR Honerkamp-Smith, P Cicuta, MD Collins… - Biophysical journal, 2008 - cell.com
Membranes containing a wide variety of ternary mixtures of high chain-melting temperature
lipids, low chain-melting temperature lipids, and cholesterol undergo lateral phase …

Comparison of three ternary lipid bilayer mixtures: FRET and ESR reveal nanodomains

FA Heberle, J Wu, SL Goh, RS Petruzielo… - Biophysical journal, 2010 - cell.com
Phase diagrams of ternary lipid mixtures containing cholesterol have provided valuable
insight into cell membrane behaviors, especially by describing regions of coexisting liquid …

Phase-field modeling of the dynamics of multicomponent vesicles: Spinodal decomposition, coarsening, budding, and fission

JS Lowengrub, A Rätz, A Voigt - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and …, 2009 - APS
We develop a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model to simulate the dynamics of
multicomponent vesicles. The model accounts for bending stiffness, spontaneous curvature …

Molecular mechanisms of force production in clathrin‐mediated endocytosis

MM Lacy, R Ma, NG Ravindra, J Berro - FEBS letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
During clathrin‐mediated endocytosis (CME), a flat patch of membrane is invaginated and
pinched off to release a vesicle into the cytoplasm. In yeast CME, over 60 proteins …