2013/12/31 by O. V. Manyuhina · 4 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Anisotropy #Biology #Classical mechanics #Condensed matter physics #Crowding #Curvature #Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications #Geometry #Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior #Mathematics #Optics #Phenomenological model #Physics #Protein Structure and Dynamics #Statistical physics #cond-mat.soft #physics.bio-ph #q-bio.SC
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.90.022713
published in Physical Review E 90(2), 022713 (American Physical Society) · v3: to match the published version; references and discussion on mechanisms for membrane bending are added
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Collective behavior of proteins on biomembranes is usually studied within the spontaneous curvature model. Here we consider an alternative phenomenological approach, which accounts consistently for partial ordering of proteins as well as the anchoring forces exerted on a membrane by layer of proteins. We show analytically that such anisotropic interactions can drive membrane bending, resulting in nontrivial equilibrium morphologies. The predicted instabilities can advance our conceptual understanding of physical mechanisms behind collective phenomena in biological systems, in particular those with inherent anisotropy.