Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Adhesion to nanofibers drives cell membrane remodeling through one-dimensional wetting

  • Arthur Charles-Orszag,
  • Feng-Ching Tsai,
  • Daria Bonazzi,
  • Valeria Manriquez,
  • Martin Sachse,
  • Adeline Mallet,
  • Audrey Salles,
  • Keira Melican,
  • Ralitza Staneva,
  • Aurélie Bertin,
  • Corinne Millien,
  • Sylvie Goussard,
  • Pierre Lafaye,
  • Spencer Shorte,
  • Matthieu Piel,
  • Jacomine Krijnse-Locker,
  • Françoise Brochard-Wyart,
  • Patricia Bassereau,
  • Guillaume Duménil

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06948-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Meningococci remodel the plasma membrane of host cells during infection. Here, Charles-Orszag et al. show that plasma membrane remodeling occurs independently of F-actin, along meningococcal type IV pili fibers, by a physical mechanism that they term ‘one-dimensional’ membrane wetting.