2 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Entropy-Driven Initiation and Cytoskeletal Viscoelasticity in Endocytosis: An Onsager Variational Framework
Jinjie Liu, Zhongcan Ouyang, Hao Wu
Receptor-mediated endocytosis requires a particle to approach the cell membrane to within a few nanometers before ligand--receptor binding can occur. Existing continuum models ofte…
cond-mat.soft2026
Entropy-Driven Initiation and Cellular Uptake Mediated by Viscoelastic Cytoskeleton: A Kinetic Phase Diagram from Onsager Variational Principle
Jinjie Liu, Zhong-Can Ou-Yang, Hao Wu
A fundamental question in receptor-mediated endocytosis remains unanswered: what initial driving force brings ligands and receptors into close proximity? While previous models assu…