Biophysics and Mechanics of Cell Membranes
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological Membrane Dynamics and Computation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2022) | Viewed by 12450
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cellular and molecular biomechanics; modeling cell membranes; cross-membrane transport; mechanics of biological materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The membranes of cells or bacteria play essential roles in many processes that are critical to life. For example, the adhesion formed between the membrane and the outside is critical for cells/bacteria to probe their microenvironment and to perform functions such as migration and endocytosis. In addition, the deformation of the nuclear membrane is believed to be tightly related to cell mechanotransduction. Recently, accumulating evidence has also demonstrated that the progression of diseases like cancer leads to a markedly changed physical response in the cell membrane. Therefore, precise knowledge of the mechanics involved will be one of the keys to finding new ways to monitor and treat such a disorder.
The goal of this Special Issue is to gather a collection of substantial advances made in the fundamental and application-oriented study of cell membrane. We welcome contributions in the form of reviews and original research papers reporting recent theoretical and experimental efforts in areas including, but not limited to, the following: membrane-mediated cell adhesion, measurement techniques for cellular mechanics, membrane–protein interactions, cross-membrane transport, computational modelling of biological membrane, shape evolution of the cell/nuclear membrane, endocytosis of nanoparticles, cell/bacteria division, membrane damage and repairing, and viral budding.
Dr. Yuan Lin
Dr. Zhiqin Chu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Nuclear membrane
- Computational modeling of biological membranes
- Membrane–protein interactions
- Cell adhesion
- Cellular uptake of nanoparticles
- Cross-membrane transport
- Shape evolution of membrane
- Lipid dynamics
- Membrane damage and repairing
- Cell and bacteria division
- Measurement techniques for cellular mechanics
- Mechanosensitive channels
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