Actomyosin-Driven Division of a Synthetic Cell

Orchestrating Non-muscle myosin II filament assembly at the onset of cytokinesis

(2022) Fereshteh R. Najafabadi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Encapsulated actomyosin patterns drive cell-like membrane shape changes

(2022) Yashar Bashirzadeh et al.   iScience

The membrane-actin linker ezrin acts as a sliding anchor

(2022) Elgin Korkmazhan et al.   Science Advances

Influence of membrane-cortex linkers on the extrusion of membrane tubes

(2021) Alexandru Paraschiv et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Protein Reconstitution Inside Giant Unilamellar Vesicles

(2021) Thomas Litschel et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

Mechanical Mechanisms of Chromosome Segregation

(2021) Maya I. Anjur-Dietrich et al.   Cells

Reconstitution of contractile actomyosin rings in vesicles

(2021) Thomas Litschel et al.   Nature Communications

Membrane binding controls ordered self-assembly of animal septins

(2021) Agata Szuba et al.   eLife

Towards a synthetic cell cycle

(2021) Lorenzo Olivi et al.   Nature Communications

Anillin propels myosin-independent constriction of actin rings

(2021) Ondřej Kučera et al.   Nature Communications

Optimized cDICE for Efficient Reconstitution of Biological Systems in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles

(2021) Lori Van de Cauter et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Calponin-homology domain mediated bending of membrane-associated actin filaments

(2021) Saravanan Palani et al.   eLife

Effects of the Laplace pressure on the cells during cytokinesis

(2021) Xiaohuan Wang et al.   iScience

Building the cytokinetic contractile ring in an early embryo: Initiation as clusters of myosin II, anillin and septin, and visualization of a septin filament network

(2021) Chelsea Garno et al.   PLoS One

Optogenetic relaxation of actomyosin contractility uncovers mechanistic roles of cortical tension during cytokinesis

(2021) Kei Yamamoto et al.   Nature Communications

Extent of myosin penetration within the actin cortex regulates cell surface mechanics

(2021) Binh An Truong Quang et al.   Nature Communications

Building a community to engineer synthetic cells and organelles from the bottom-up

(2021) Oskar Staufer et al.   eLife

Rapid Encapsulation of Reconstituted Cytoskeleton inside Giant Unilamellar Vesicles

(2021) Yashar Bashirzadeh et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Septin Remodeling During Mammalian Cytokinesis

(2021) Giulia Russo et al.   Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Actin crosslinker competition and sorting drive emergent GUV size-dependent actin network architecture

(2021) Yashar Bashirzadeh et al.   Communications Biology

Build-a-Cell: Engineering a Synthetic Cell Community

(2021) Caroline Frischmon et al.   Life-Basel

Myosin II filament dynamics in actin networks revealed with interferometric scattering microscopy

(2020) L.S. Mosby et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Charge-dependent interactions of monomeric and filamentous actin with lipid bilayers

(2020) Carsten F. E. Schroer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Controlled division of cell-sized vesicles by low densities of membrane-bound proteins

(2020) Jan Steinkühler et al.   Nature Communications

Bacterial cell division at a glance

(2020) Christopher R. Mahone et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Force and phosphate release from Arp2/3 complex promote dissociation of actin filament branches

(2020) Nandan G. Pandit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The dynamics of actin network turnover is self-organized by a growth-depletion feedback

(2020) P. Bleicher et al.   Scientific Reports

The crosstalk between microtubules, actin and membranes shapes cell division

(2020) Francesca Rizzelli et al.   Open Biology

Stratification relieves constraints from steric hindrance in the generation of compact actomyosin asters at the membrane cortex

(2020) Amit Das et al.   Science Advances

SPIN90 associates with mDia1 and the Arp2/3 complex to regulate cortical actin organization

(2020) Luyan Cao et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

The Mechanics of Mitotic Cell Rounding

(2020) Anna V. Taubenberger et al.   Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Genetically controlled membrane synthesis in liposomes

(2020) Duco Blanken et al.   Nature Communications

Comparative Analysis of the Roles of Non-muscle Myosin-IIs in Cytokinesis in Budding Yeast, Fission Yeast, and Mammalian Cells

(2020) Kangji Wang et al.   Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

FtsZ dynamics in bacterial division: What, how, and why?

(2020) Jordan M. Barrows et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

An amphipathic helix enables septins to sense micrometer-scale membrane curvature

(2019) Kevin S. Cannon et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Membrane reshaping by micrometric curvature sensitive septin filaments

(2019) Alexandre Beber et al.   Nature Communications

Torsional stress generated by ADF/cofilin on cross-linked actin filaments boosts their severing

(2019) Hugo Wioland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Heterogeneous and rate-dependent streptavidin–biotin unbinding revealed by high-speed force spectroscopy and atomistic simulations

(2019) Felix Rico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Scaling behaviour in steady-state contracting actomyosin networks

(2019) Maya Malik-Garbi et al.   Nature Physics

Shape and Size Control of Artificial Cells for Bottom-Up Biology

(2019) Federico Fanalista et al.   ACS Nano

Synthetic cell division via membrane-transforming molecular assemblies

(2019) Simon Kretschmer et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Two Sides of the Coin: Ezrin/Radixin/Moesin and Merlin Control Membrane Structure and Contact Inhibition

(2019) Katharine A. Michie et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

DNA nanostructures in vitro, in vivo and on membranes

(2019) Wooli Bae et al.   Nano Today

Cofilin drives rapid turnover and fluidization of entangled F-actin

(2019) Patrick M. McCall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Membrane Tension–Mediated Growth of Liposomes

(2019) Siddharth Deshpande et al.   Small

Network Contractility during Cytokinesis—From Molecular to Global Views

(2019) Joana Leite et al.   Biomolecules

Organization of Associating or Crosslinked Actin Filaments in Confinement

(2019) Maral Adeli Koudehi et al.   Cytoskeleton

Kinetics of Histidine-Tagged Protein Association to Nickel-Decorated Liposome Surfaces

(2019) Gokul Raghunath et al.   LANGMUIR

Mechanism of synergistic actin filament pointed end depolymerization by cyclase-associated protein and cofilin

(2019) Tommi Kotila et al.   Nature Communications

Myosin 1b is an actin depolymerase

(2019) Julien Pernier et al.   Nature Communications

Membrane Nanotubes Increase the Robustness of Giant Vesicles

(2018) Tripta Bhatia et al.   ACS Nano

Tailoring the appearance: what will synthetic cells look like?

(2018) Willem Kasper Spoelstra et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Actin, microtubule, septin and ESCRT filament remodeling during late steps of cytokinesis

(2018) Cyril Addi et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Architecture shapes contractility in actomyosin networks

(2018) Gijsje H Koenderink et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

The actin cortex at a glance

(2018) Priyamvada Chugh et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Rheology of Membrane-Attached Minimal Actin Cortices

(2018) Helen Nöding et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

The 2018 biomembrane curvature and remodeling roadmap

(2018) Patricia Bassereau et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Structure of the fission yeast actomyosin ring during constriction

(2018) Matthew T. Swulius et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The glycolipid GM1 reshapes asymmetric biomembranes and giant vesicles by curvature generation

(2018) Raktim Dasgupta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Capping protein-controlled actin polymerization shapes lipid membranes

(2018) Katharina Dürre et al.   Nature Communications

Modulation of formin processivity by profilin and mechanical tension

(2018) Luyan Cao et al.   eLife

Influence of cross-linkers on ezrin-bound minimal actin cortices

(2018) Markus Schön et al.   PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Ezrin enrichment on curved membranes requires a specific conformation or interaction with a curvature-sensitive partner

(2018) Feng-Ching Tsai et al.   eLife

Highly Efficient Protein-free Membrane Fusion: A Giant Vesicle Study

(2018) Rafael B. Lira et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Polarity sorting drives remodeling of actin-myosin networks

(2018) Viktoria Wollrab et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Unite to divide – how models and biological experimentation have come together to reveal mechanisms of cytokinesis

(2018) Daniel B. Cortes et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Myosin-II activity generates a dynamic steady state with continuous actin turnover in a minimal actin cortex

(2018) Sonal et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Asymmetric Ionic Conditions Generate Large Membrane Curvatures

(2018) Marzieh Karimi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Actin turnover maintains actin filament homeostasis during cytokinetic ring contraction

(2017) Ting Gang Chew et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Phosphoinositide-mediated ring anchoring resists perpendicular forces to promote medial cytokinesis

(2017) Chloe E. Snider et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Nine unanswered questions about cytokinesis

(2017) Thomas D. Pollard   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Dissecting the actin cortex density and membrane-cortex distance in living cells by super-resolution microscopy

(2017) M P Clausen et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

The ultrastructural organization of actin and myosin II filaments in the contractile ring: new support for an old model of cytokinesis

(2017) John H. Henson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Diffusion of lipids and GPI-anchored proteins in actin-free plasma membrane vesicles measured by STED-FCS

(2017) Falk Schneider et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Actin cortex architecture regulates cell surface tension

(2017) Priyamvada Chugh et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Mechanoregulated inhibition of formin facilitates contractile actomyosin ring assembly

(2017) Dennis Zimmermann et al.   Nature Communications

Growing Membranes In Vitro by Continuous Phospholipid Biosynthesis from Free Fatty Acids

(2017) Marten Exterkate et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Control of lipid domain organization by a biomimetic contractile actomyosin cortex

(2017) Sven Kenjiro Vogel et al.   eLife

Nanoscale architecture of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe contractile ring

(2017) Nathan A McDonald et al.   eLife

Rheology of the Active Cell Cortex in Mitosis

(2016) Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Architecture and Connectivity Govern Actin Network Contractility

(2016) Hajer Ennomani et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Actin Rings of Power

(2016) Cornelia Schwayer et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Micron-scale plasma membrane curvature is recognized by the septin cytoskeleton

(2016) Andrew A. Bridges et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Expansion and concatenation of nonmuscle myosin IIA filaments drive cellular contractile system formation during interphase and mitosis

(2016) Aidan M. Fenix et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Role of Turnover in Active Stress Generation in a Filament Network

(2016) Tetsuya Hiraiwa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Transport efficiency of membrane-anchored kinesin-1 motors depends on motor density and diffusivity

(2016) Rahul Grover et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Actomyosin dynamics drive local membrane component organization in an in vitro active composite layer

(2016) Darius Vasco Köster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Disordered actomyosin networks are sufficient to produce cooperative and telescopic contractility

(2016) Ian Linsmeier et al.   Nature Communications

Boundaries steer the contraction of active gels

(2016) Matthias Schuppler et al.   Nature Communications

Cortical flow aligns actin filaments to form a furrow

(2016) Anne-Cecile Reymann et al.   eLife

Shape remodeling and blebbing of active cytoskeletal vesicles

(2016) E. Loiseau et al.   Science Advances

Actin kinetics shapes cortical network structure and mechanics

(2016) M. Fritzsche et al.   Science Advances

Amphipathic DNA Origami Nanoparticles to Scaffold and Deform Lipid Membrane Vesicles

(2015) Aleksander Czogalla et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Phosphoinositides: Lipids with informative heads and mastermind functions in cell division

(2015) Clothilde Cauvin et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY OF LIPIDS

Mechanics of Biomimetic Liposomes Encapsulating an Actin Shell

(2015) Karine Guevorkian et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Mitosis, Diffusible Crosslinkers, and the Ideal Gas Law

(2015) David J. Odde   CELL

Profilin Regulates F-Actin Network Homeostasis by Favoring Formin over Arp2/3 Complex

(2015) Cristian Suarez et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Mechanistic Insights into the Anchorage of the Contractile Ring by Anillin and Mid1

(2015) Lingfei Sun et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Myosin 1b functions as an effector of EphB signaling to control cell repulsion

(2015) Marie-Thérèse Prospéri et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Membrane curvature at a glance

(2015) H. T. McMahon et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Cell-sized spherical confinement induces the spontaneous formation of contractile actomyosin rings in vitro

(2015) Makito Miyazaki et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Isoform diversity in the Arp2/3 complex determines actin filament dynamics

(2015) Jasmine V. G. Abella et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Forcing cells into shape: the mechanics of actomyosin contractility

(2015) Michael Murrell et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Mechanical response of adherent giant liposomes to indentation with a conical AFM-tip

(2015) Edith Schäfer et al.   Soft Matter

Shape control of lipid bilayer membranes by confined actin bundles

(2015) Feng-Ching Tsai et al.   Soft Matter

On the move: organelle dynamics during mitosis

(2015) Marlieke L.M. Jongsma et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

When Physics Takes Over: BAR Proteins and Membrane Curvature

(2015) Mijo Simunovic et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Formin and capping protein together embrace the actin filament in a ménage à trois

(2015) Shashank Shekhar et al.   Nature Communications

Tailor-Made Ezrin Actin Binding Domain to Probe Its Interaction with Actin In-Vitro

(2015) Rohini Shrivastava et al.   PLoS One

Furrow Constriction in Animal Cell Cytokinesis

(2014) Hervé Turlier et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cellular Control of Cortical Actin Nucleation

(2014) Miia Bovellan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Active organization of membrane constituents in living cells

(2014) Madan Rao et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Structure and Mechanism of Mouse Cyclase-associated Protein (CAP1) in Regulating Actin Dynamics

(2014) Silvia Jansen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Septins promote F-actin ring formation by crosslinking actin filaments into curved bundles

(2014) Manos Mavrakis et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Single-molecule analysis of cell surface dynamics in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos

(2014) François B Robin et al.   NATURE METHODS

Active elastic thin shell theory for cellular deformations

(2014) Hélène Berthoumieux et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Shaping up to divide: Coordinating actin and microtubule cytoskeletal remodelling during mitosis

(2014) Oscar M. Lancaster et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Geometrical Origins of Contractility in Disordered Actomyosin Networks

(2014) Martin Lenz   Physical Review X

A lipid bound actin meshwork organizes liquid phase separation in model membranes

(2014) Alf Honigmann et al.   eLife

Lateral Membrane Diffusion Modulated by a Minimal Actin Cortex

(2013) Fabian Heinemann et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Force to Divide: Structural and Mechanical Requirements for Actomyosin Ring Contraction

(2013) Inês Mendes Pinto et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cell cortex composition and homeostasis resolved by integrating proteomics and quantitative imaging

(2013) Maté Biro et al.   Cytoskeleton

Analysis of turnover dynamics of the submembranous actin cortex

(2013) Marco Fritzsche et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

In vitro contraction of cytokinetic ring depends on myosin II but not on actin dynamics

(2013) Mithilesh Mishra et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Cell-sized liposomes reveal how actomyosin cortical tension drives shape change

(2013) K. Carvalho et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cytokinesis in Animal Cells

(2012) Rebecca A. Green et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Active Remodeling of Cortical Actin Regulates Spatiotemporal Organization of Cell Surface Molecules

(2012) Kripa Gowrishankar et al.   CELL

Membrane dynamics during cytokinesis

(2012) John A Schiel et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Polar expansion during cytokinesis

(2012) Heather F.M. Gudejko et al.   Cytoskeleton

Contractile Units in Disordered Actomyosin Bundles Arise from F-Actin Buckling

(2012) Martin Lenz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Actin filament curvature biases branching direction

(2012) V. I. Risca et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identification of cation-binding sites on actin that drive polymerization and modulate bending stiffness

(2012) H. Kang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nonmuscle myosin II exerts tension but does not translocate actin in vertebrate cytokinesis

(2012) X. Ma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

F-actin buckling coordinates contractility and severing in a biomimetic actomyosin cortex

(2012) M. P. Murrell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spreading Dynamics of Biomimetic Actin Cortices

(2011) Michael Murrell et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cells Respond to Mechanical Stress by Rapid Disassembly of Caveolae

(2011) Bidisha Sinha et al.   CELL

Polar actomyosin contractility destabilizes the position of the cytokinetic furrow

(2011) Jakub Sedzinski et al.   NATURE

Self-reproduction of supramolecular giant vesicles combined with the amplification of encapsulated DNA

(2011) Kensuke Kurihara et al.   Nature Chemistry

Self-organized patterns of actin filaments in cell-sized confinement

(2011) Marina Soares e Silva et al.   Soft Matter

I-BAR protein antagonism of endocytosis mediates directional sensing during guided cell migration

(2010) Gabriel A. Quinones et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

The myriad roles of Anillin during cytokinesis

(2010) Alisa J. Piekny et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Reconstitution of an Actin Cortex Inside a Liposome

(2009) Léa-Laetitia Pontani et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cofilin Dissociates Arp2/3 Complex and Branches from Actin Filaments

(2009) Chikio Chan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Condensation of isolated semi-flexible filaments driven by depletion interactions

(2009) A. W. C. Lau et al.   EPL

Direct evidence for roles of phosphorylated regulatory light chain of myosin II in furrow ingression during cytokinesis in HeLa cells

(2009) Satoshi Asano et al.   GENES TO CELLS

Semiflexible chains in confined spaces

(2009) Greg Morrison et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Hydrodynamics of Cellular Cortical Flows and the Formation of Contractile Rings

(2009) G. Salbreux et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Interactions between Myosin and Actin Crosslinkers Control Cytokinesis Contractility Dynamics and Mechanics

(2008) Elizabeth M. Reichl et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Anillin Is a Scaffold Protein That Links RhoA, Actin, and Myosin during Cytokinesis

(2008) Alisa J. Piekny et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Kinetic Control of Histidine-Tagged Protein Surface Density on Supported Lipid Bilayers

(2008) Jeffrey A. Nye et al.   LANGMUIR