2 papers
physics.bio-ph2024
Membrane tubes with active pumping: water transport, vacuole formation and osmoregulation
Sami C. Al-Izzi, Matthew S. Turner, Pierre Sens
The need for organisms to regulate their volume and osmolarity when surrounded by freshwater is a basic physical challenge for many bacteria, protists and algae. Taking inspiration…
q-bio.SC2024
Advecting Scaffolds: Controlling The Remodelling Of Actomyosin With Anillin
Denni Currin-Ross, Sami C. Al-Izzi, Ivar Noordstra +2
We propose and analyse an active hydrodynamic theory that characterises the effects of the scaffold protein anillin. Anillin is found at major sites of cortical activity, such as a…