Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Membrane reshaping by micrometric curvature sensitive septin filaments

  • Alexandre Beber,
  • Cyntia Taveneau,
  • Manuela Nania,
  • Feng-Ching Tsai,
  • Aurelie Di Cicco,
  • Patricia Bassereau,
  • Daniel Lévy,
  • João T. Cabral,
  • Hervé Isambert,
  • Stéphanie Mangenot,
  • Aurélie Bertin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08344-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Septins are cytoskeletal filaments that localize at constriction sites and impact membrane remodeling. Here authors examine the curvature sensitivity of septins using bilayers on wavy patterns and derive a theoretical model that quantitatively describe the results.