Effective membrane tension: A long-range integrator of cellular dynamics.

Keren, Kinneret · Cell · 2023

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Abstract

Membrane tension has been proposed to mechanically couple processes along the cell's boundary. In this issue of Cell, De Belly et al. show that local protrusion or contraction elicit a global membrane tension increase within seconds, whereas tension perturbations that engage only the membrane remain localized.

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