BiophysicsProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
Sensing the shape of a surface by intracellular filaments
Handuo Shi, Jeffrey P. Nguyen, Jordan Alexander Huang…·Kerwyn Casey Huang
This paper develops a biophysical model to explain how MreB filaments localize to curved surfaces in bacteria, showing that their curvature preference is governed by mean and Gaussian curvatures.
DOI 10.1073/pnas.2526131122