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physics.bio-ph2023
Universal Casimir attraction between filaments at the cell scale
Benjamin Spreng, Hélène Berthoumieux, Astrid Lambrecht +3
The electromagnetic Casimir interaction between dielectric objects immersed in salted water includes a universal contribution that is not screened by the solvent and therefore long…
physics.bio-ph2023
A universal attractive interaction between filaments at the cell scale
Anne-Florence Bitbol, Hélène Berthoumieux, Benjamin Spreng +2
Actin filaments and microtubules both often form bundles of parallel filaments within cells. Here, we shed light on a universal attractive interaction between two such parallel fil…
physics.bio-ph2019
Mitochondrial cristae modeled as an out-of-equilibrium membrane driven by a proton field
Nirbhay Patil, Stéphanie Bonneau, Fréderic Joubert +2
As the places where most of the fuel of the cell, namely ATP, is synthesized, mitochondria are crucial organelles in eukaryotic cells. The shape of the invaginations of the mitocho…