This review summarizes recent investigations on the association of macromolecules on lipid
bilayers. Hydrophilic and flexible polymers can form soft coronae tenuously adsorbed or …

Giant vesicles are widely used as a model membrane system, both for basic biological
systems and for their promising applications in the development of smart materials and cell …

In this paper, we review the theoretical analyses and simulations of the interactions between
curvature-inducing proteins and biomembranes. Laterally isotropic proteins induce spherical …

Curvature-inducing proteins containing a bin/amphiphysin/Rvs domain often have
intrinsically disordered domains. Recent experiments have shown that these disordered …

Conical inclusions in a lipid bilayer generate an overall spontaneous curvature of the
membrane that depends on concentration and geometry of the inclusions. Examples are …

The fluctuation spectra and the intermembrane interaction of two membranes at a fixed
average distance are investigated. Each membrane can either be a fluid or a solid …

Many types of peripheral and transmembrane proteins can sense and generate membrane
curvature. Laterally isotropic proteins and crescent proteins with twofold rotational symmetry …

The plasma membrane hosts a wide range of biomolecules, mainly proteins and
carbohydrates, that mediate cellular interactions with its environment. The crowding of such …

The interaction of fluid membranes with a scaffold, which can be a planar surface or a more
complex structure, is intrinsic to a number of systems from artificial supported bilayers and …

We study the system of cylindrical colloids adhering to an originally flat fluid membrane, on
the basis of a full treatment of the Helfrich model. Our approach allows for numerical …