2 papers
q-bio.CB2025
Mechanical activity enables patterning and discrimination at the immune synapse
Tony Wong, Tom Chou, Suraj Shankar +1
Immune cells recognize and discriminate antigens through immunological synapses - dynamic intercellular junctions exhibiting highly organized receptor-ligand patterns. While much w…
physics.bio-ph2025
Adaptive mechanical proofreading toward faithful clonal selection
Qing Xu, Shenshen Wang
To ensure faithful information transmission, cells utilize nonequilibrium drives to reduce errors. Kinetic proofreading is a classic mechanism known to sharpen ligand discriminatio…