Cellular membranes exhibit a fascinating variety of different morphologies, which are
continuously remodeled by transformations of membrane shape and topology. This …

Multivesicular bodies are key endosomal compartments implicated in cellular quality control
through their degradation of membrane-bound cargo proteins,–. The ATP-consuming …

Piezo1 is an ion channel that gates open when mechanical force is applied to a cell
membrane, thus allowing cells to detect and respond to mechanical stimulation. Molecular …

Piezo proteins are mechanosensitive ion channels that can locally curve the membrane into
a dome shape [YR Guo, R. MacKinnon, eLife 6, e33660 (2017)]. The curved shape of the …

Membrane budding and fission are essential cellular processes that produce new
membrane compartments during cell and organelle division, for intracellular vesicle …

Recent advances in micro-and nano-technologies allow the construction of complex active
systems from biological and synthetic materials. An interesting example is active vesicles …

Reaction-diffusion systems encapsulated within giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) can lead
to shape oscillations of these vesicles as recently observed for the bacterial Min protein …

Giant vesicles respond to environmental changes by remodeling both their shape and their
local membrane composition. Particularly interesting morphological transitions are provided …

Understanding and manipulating the interactions between foreign bodies and cell
membranes during endo-and phagocytosis is of paramount importance, not only for the fate …