BiophysicsJournal of Cell SciencePeer-reviewed
Dynamic mechanisms for membrane skeleton transitions
Mayte Bonilla-Quintana, Andrea Ghisleni, Nils C. Gauthier, Padmini Rangamani
This paper develops a network model of the membrane skeleton integrating myosin and membrane mechanics to show that membrane bending and spectrin/myosin turnover are critical for maintaining structural stability under mechanical stress.