Effective membrane tension: A long-range integrator of cellular dynamics

Kinneret Keren

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.033

Effective membrane tension: A long-range integrator of cellular dynamics

Cell. 2023 Jul 6;186(14):2956-2958. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.033.

Author

Kinneret Keren¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physics, Network Biology Research Laboratories and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel. Electronic address: kinneret@physics.technion.ac.il.

PMID: 37419084
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.033

Abstract

Membrane tension has been proposed to mechanically couple processes along the cell's boundary. In this issue of Cell, De Belly et al. show that local protrusion or contraction elicit a global membrane tension increase within seconds, whereas tension perturbations that engage only the membrane remain localized.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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MeSH terms

Cell Membrane / metabolism
Cells, Cultured
Cytoskeleton* / metabolism