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Protein Recruitment through Indirect Mechanochemical Interactions
Andriy Goychuk; Erwin Frey
In: Physical Review Letters, vol. 123, no. 17, pp. 178101, 2019, ISSN: 0031-9007, 1079-7114.
Analytical TheoryBiomolecular Self-AssemblyElastic DeformationFirst Passage ProblemsMean Field TheoryPattern FormationProtein-Membrane InteractionsProtein-Protein Interactions
@article{goychuk_protein_2019,
title = {Protein Recruitment through Indirect Mechanochemical Interactions},
author = {Andriy Goychuk and Erwin Frey},
url = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.178101},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.178101},
issn = {0031-9007, 1079-7114},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-10-01},
urldate = {2026-05-29},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
volume = {123},
number = {17},
pages = {178101},
abstract = {Some of the key proteins essential for important cellular processes are capable of recruiting other proteins from the cytosol to phospholipid membranes. The physical basis for this cooperativity of binding is, surprisingly, still unclear. Here, we suggest a general feedback mechanism that explains cooperativity through mechanochemical coupling mediated by the mechanical properties of phospholipid membranes. Our theory predicts that protein recruitment, and therefore also protein pattern formation, involves membrane deformation and is strongly affected by membrane composition.},
keywords = {Analytical Theory, Biomolecular Self-Assembly, Elastic Deformation, First Passage Problems, Mean Field Theory, Pattern Formation, Protein-Membrane Interactions, Protein-Protein Interactions},
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}
Some of the key proteins essential for important cellular processes are capable of recruiting other proteins from the cytosol to phospholipid membranes. The physical basis for this cooperativity of binding is, surprisingly, still unclear. Here, we suggest a general feedback mechanism that explains cooperativity through mechanochemical coupling mediated by the mechanical properties of phospholipid membranes. Our theory predicts that protein recruitment, and therefore also protein pattern formation, involves membrane deformation and is strongly affected by membrane composition.