Wenting Zhao

The paper shows that acute chromatin decompaction increases nuclear stiffness in some cells but not others, depending on their ability to recompact chromatin.

This study shows that Chikungunya virus nsP1 preferentially binds to positively curved membranes, enabling saddle curvature association critical for replication complex assembly.

This study shows that nuclear invaginations regulate ribosome biogenesis by contacting nucleoli, with high curvature increasing ribosome production and low curvature reducing it.

The paper demonstrates that membrane curvature catalyzes actin nucleation through the condensation and activation of N-WASP by FBP17, revealing a curvature-guided mechanism for actin remodeling.

This study shows that K-Ras and H-Ras isoforms respond differently to plasma membrane curvature, with K-Ras favoring less curved membranes and H-Ras favoring more curved membranes, mediated by phospholipid sorting.