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ArticleBiophysical journal2015

Model for probing membrane-cortex adhesion by micropipette aspiration and fluctuation spectroscopy.

Ricard Alert, Jaume Casademunt, Jan Brugués, Pierre Sens

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ricard AlertDepartament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Jaume CasademuntDepartament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Jan BruguésMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany. Electronic address: brugues@mpi-cbg.de.
Pierre SensLaboratoire Gulliver, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-ESPCI Paris Tech, UMR 7083, Paris, France. Electronic address: pierre.sens@curie.fr.
Universitat de Barcelona · ESCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We propose a model for membrane-cortex adhesion that couples membrane deformations, hydrodynamics, and kinetics of membrane-cortex ligands. In its simplest form, the model gives explicit predictions for the critical pressure for membrane detachment and for the value of adhesion energy. We show that these quantities exhibit a significant dependence on the active acto-myosin stresses. The model provides a simple framework to access quantitative information on cortical activity by means of micropipette experiments. We also extend the model to incorporate fluctuations and show that detailed information on the stability of membrane-cortex coupling can be obtained by a combination of micropipette aspiration and fluctuation spectroscopy measurements.

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Models, BiologicalStress, MechanicalActin CytoskeletonCell AdhesionCell MembraneHydrostatic PressureLigandsViscosityLigands

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PMID25902428
PMCPMC4407260
OpenAlexW2140592794

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