ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2020
Continuum Models of Membrane Fusion: Evolution of the Theory.
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- Understanding the Mechanisms of Supported Lipid Membranes Reshaping into Tubular Networks Using Quantitative DIC Microscopy.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2026Article
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- The Interplay of Lipids and Peptides in Membrane Merger.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- Quantifying the Activation Barrier for Phospholipid Monolayer Fusion Governing Lipid Droplet Coalescence.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Cell surface crowding is a tunable energetic barrier to cell-cell fusion.Nature communications · 2025Article
- SARS-CoV-2 FP1 Destabilizes Lipid Membranes and Facilitates Pore Formation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Densely packed membrane configurations.Meccanica · 2025Article
- Viral glycoprotein-mediated entry and antibody-mediated immunity in HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 infection.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Boosting Lipofection Efficiency Through Enhanced Membrane Fusion Mechanisms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Cell-cell fusion in cancer: The next cancer hallmark?The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology · 2024Review
- Visualizing intermediate stages of viral membrane fusion by cryo-electron tomography.Trends in biochemical sciences · 2024Review
- Lipid Selectivity of Membrane Action of the Fragments of Fusion Peptides of Marburg and Ebola Viruses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Role of isotropic lipid phase in the fusion of photosystem II membranes.Photosynthesis research · 2024Article
- Multiscale modelling of transport in polymer-based reverse-osmosis/nanofiltration membranes: present and future.Discover nano · 2024Review
- The local variation of the Gaussian modulus enables different pathways for fluid lipid vesicle fusion.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- High curvature promotes fusion of lipid membranes: Predictions from continuum elastic theory.Biophysical journal · 2023Article
- Two modes of fusogenic action for influenza virus fusion peptide.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- The Degree of Hydroxylation of Phenolic Rings Determines the Ability of Flavonoids and Stilbenes to Inhibit Calcium-Mediated Membrane Fusion.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Influence of Membrane Fouling and Reverse Salt Flux on Membrane Impedance of Forward Osmosis Microbial Fuel Cell.Membranes · 2022Article
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Abstract
Starting from fertilization, through tissue growth, hormone secretion, synaptic transmission, and sometimes morbid events of carcinogenesis and viral infections, membrane fusion regulates the whole life of high organisms. Despite that, a lot of fusion processes still lack well-established models and even a list of main actors. A merger of membranes requires their topological rearrangements controlled by elastic properties of a lipid bilayer. That is why continuum models based on theories of membrane elasticity are actively applied for the construction of physical models of membrane fusion. Started from the view on the membrane as a structureless film with postulated geometry of fusion intermediates, they developed along with experimental and computational techniques to a powerful tool for prediction of the whole process with molecular accuracy. In the present review, focusing on fusion processes occurring in eukaryotic cells, we scrutinize the history of these models, their evolution and complication, as well as open questions and remaining theoretical problems. We show that modern approaches in this field allow continuum models of membrane fusion to stand shoulder to shoulder with molecular dynamics simulations, and provide the deepest understanding of this process in multiple biological systems.
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