Generation of nanoscopic membrane curvature for membrane trafficking

MM Kozlov, JW Taraska - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2023 - nature.com
Curved membranes are key features of intracellular organelles, and their generation
involves dynamic protein complexes. Here we describe the fundamental mechanisms such …

Peptide design principles for antimicrobial applications

MDT Torres, S Sothiselvam, TK Lu… - Journal of molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
The increased incidence of bacterial resistance to available antibiotics represents a major
global health problem and highlights the need for novel anti-infective therapies …

When physics takes over: BAR proteins and membrane curvature

M Simunovic, GA Voth, A Callan-Jones… - Trends in cell …, 2015 - cell.com
Cell membranes become highly curved during membrane trafficking, cytokinesis, infection,
immune response, or cell motion. Bin/amphiphysin/Rvs (BAR) domain proteins with their …

Curving cells inside and out: roles of BAR domain proteins in membrane shaping and its cellular implications

M Simunovic, E Evergren… - Annual review of cell …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Many cellular processes rely on precise and timely deformation of the cell membrane. While
many proteins participate in membrane reshaping and scission, usually in highly specialized …

Thermodynamics and mechanics of membrane curvature generation and sensing by proteins and lipids

T Baumgart, BR Capraro, C Zhu… - Annual review of physical …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Research investigating lipid membrane curvature generation and sensing is a rapidly
developing frontier in membrane physical chemistry and biophysics. The fast recent …

Mechanisms shaping cell membranes

MM Kozlov, F Campelo, N Liska… - Current opinion in cell …, 2014 - Elsevier
Membranes of intracellular organelles are characterized by large curvatures with radii of the
order of 10–30 nm. While, generally, membrane curvature can be a consequence of any …

Mechanism of membrane-curvature generation by ER-tubule shaping proteins

N Wang, LD Clark, Y Gao, MM Kozlov… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) network consists of tubules with high membrane curvature
in cross-section, generated by the reticulons and REEPs. These proteins have two pairs of …

What can machine learning do for antimicrobial peptides, and what can antimicrobial peptides do for machine learning?

EY Lee, MW Lee, BM Fulan, AL Ferguson… - Interface …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a diverse class of well-studied membrane-permeating
peptides with important functions in innate host defense. In this short review, we provide a …

Interferon-induced transmembrane protein 3 blocks fusion of diverse enveloped viruses by altering mechanical properties of cell membranes

X Guo, J Steinkühler, M Marin, X Li, W Lu, R Dimova… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Interferon-induced transmembrane protein 3 (IFITM3) potently inhibits entry of diverse
enveloped viruses by trapping the viral fusion at a hemifusion stage, but the underlying …

Membrane tension controls the assembly of curvature-generating proteins

M Simunovic, GA Voth - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Proteins containing a Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs (BAR) domain regulate membrane
curvature in the cell. Recent simulations have revealed that BAR proteins assemble into …