Control of protein-based pattern formation via guiding cues

T Burkart, MC Wigbers, L Würthner, E Frey - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Proteins control many vital functions in living cells, such as cell growth and cell division.
Reliable coordination of these functions requires the spatial and temporal organization of …

Microfluidic platform for omics analysis on single cells with diverse morphology and size: A review

S Lin, D Feng, X Han, L Li, Y Lin, H Gao - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
Background 1 Microfluidic techniques have emerged as powerful tools in single-cell
research, facilitating the exploration of omics information from individual cells. Cell …

Switch of cell migration modes orchestrated by changes of three-dimensional lamellipodium structure and intracellular diffusion

C Jiang, HY Luo, X Xu, SX Dou, W Li, D Guan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cell migration plays important roles in many biological processes, but how migrating cells
orchestrate intracellular molecules and subcellular structures to regulate their speed and …

Colloidal stochastic resonance in confined geometries

Q Zhu, Y Zhou, F Marchesoni, HP Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We investigate the dynamical properties of a colloidal particle in a double cavity. Without
external driving, the particle hops between two free-energy minima with transition mean time …

Endoplasmic reticulum network heterogeneity guides diffusive transport and kinetics

ZC Scott, K Koning, M Vanderwerp, L Cohen… - Biophysical …, 2023 - cell.com
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a dynamic network of interconnected sheets and tubules
that orchestrates the distribution of lipids, ions, and proteins throughout the cell. The impact …

Aging and confinement in subordinated fractional Brownian motion

Y Liang, W Wang, R Metzler - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
We study the effects of aging properties of subordinated fractional Brownian motion (FBM)
with drift and in harmonic confinement, when the measurement of the stochastic process …

Pleomorphism in Biological Units of Life: Morphological Heterogeneity in Cells Does Not Translate Uniformly to Subcellular Components

P Singh, A Mittal - ACS omega, 2024 - ACS Publications
The interplay of the three-dimensional (3D) distribution of various subcellular components
and their interactions are expected to control overall cellular morphology in biology. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Organization and dynamics of cross-linked actin filaments in confined environments

OH Akenuwa, SM Abel - Biophysical Journal, 2023 - cell.com
The organization of the actin cytoskeleton is impacted by the interplay between physical
confinement, features of cross-linking proteins, and deformations of semiflexible actin …

Braess's Paradox Analog in Physical Networks of Optimal Exploration

G Gounaris, E Katifori - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
In stochastic exploration of geometrically embedded graphs, intuition suggests that
providing a shortcut between a pair of nodes reduces the mean first passage time of the …

ER network heterogeneity guides diffusive transport and kinetics

ZC Scott, K Koning, M Vanderwerp, L Cohen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a dynamic network of interconnected sheets and tubules
that orchestrates the distribution of lipids, ions, and proteins throughout the cell. The impact …