Membrane structure and assembly articles within Nature Physics

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• Article | 25 July 2022

  Membrane ruffling is a mechanosensor of extracellular fluid viscosity

  Living cells change their behaviour in response to the viscosity of the medium surrounding them. An in vitro study shows that cells spread wider and move faster in a highly viscous medium, provided they have an actively ruffling lamellipodium.

  • Matthew Pittman
  • , Ernest Iu
  •  & Yun Chen

• Letter | 21 October 2019

  Overlapping and essential roles for molecular and mechanical mechanisms in mycobacterial cell division

  Atomic force microscopy reveals that the accumulation of mechanical stress works together with enzymatic activity to ensure the rapid cleavage of dividing bacteria.

  • Pascal D. Odermatt
  • , Mélanie T. M. Hannebelle
  •  & Georg E. Fantner

• Article | 07 March 2016

  Size-dependent protein segregation at membrane interfaces

  Segregation between binding and non-binding proteins in the space between cells is critical for immune response. In vitro experiments show that size alone suffices to explain the exclusion of non-binding proteins from membrane interfaces.

  • Eva M. Schmid
  • , Matthew H. Bakalar
  •  & Daniel A. Fletcher