Giant vesicles are widely used as a model membrane system, both for basic biological
systems and for their promising applications in the development of smart materials and cell …

This review summarizes recent investigations on the association of macromolecules on lipid
bilayers. Hydrophilic and flexible polymers can form soft coronae tenuously adsorbed or …

The Gaussian curvature modulus κ¯ of lipid bilayers likely contributes more than 100
kcal/mol to every cellular fission or fusion event. This huge impact on membrane remodeling …

Biological membranes are known to contain compositional heterogeneities, often termed
rafts, with distinguishable composition and function, and these heterogeneities participate in …

Abstract Systems with interfaces are abundant in both technological applications and
biology. While a fluid interface separates two fluids, membranes separate the inside of …

Shape defines the structure and function of cellular membranes. In cell division, the cell
membrane deforms into a “dumbbell” shape, while organelles such as the autophagosome …

In this paper, we review the theoretical analyses and simulations of the interactions between
curvature-inducing proteins and biomembranes. Laterally isotropic proteins induce spherical …

Curvature-inducing proteins containing a bin/amphiphysin/Rvs domain often have
intrinsically disordered domains. Recent experiments have shown that these disordered …

We study changes in curvature and elastic properties of lipid membranes induced by
anchoring of long hydrophilic polymers at low polymer surface concentrations …

Conical inclusions in a lipid bilayer generate an overall spontaneous curvature of the
membrane that depends on concentration and geometry of the inclusions. Examples are …