ArticleNature communications2025
Cell surface crowding is a tunable energetic barrier to cell-cell fusion.
Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- NucleoNet and DropNet: Generalist deep learning models for instance segmentation of nuclei and lipid droplets from electron microscopy images.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Photocontrol of Non-Adherent Cell Adhesion via Azobenzene-PEG-Lipid/Cyclodextrin Host-Guest Interactions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- A Brief Introduction into the Biological Phenomenon of Cell-Cell Fusion.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
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- Cell fusion in osteoclastogenesis.Biochemical Society transactions · 2025Review
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Cell-cell fusion is fundamental to processes such as muscle formation and viral infection. An essential step in fusion is close membrane apposition, but cell membranes are crowded with proteins, glycoproteins, and glycolipids, which must be cleared before a fusion pore can be nucleated. Here, we find that cell surface crowding reduces fusogenicity independent of how fusion is driven. We estimate that crowding presents an energetic barrier to membrane apposition on the scale of ~
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