Driving membrane fission is not quite as hard as it seems (at least to me!). Very happy to contribute to this work from Wade Zeno’s lab!
Margaret Johnson
New preprint from my lab! Clathrin doesn’t bind membranes directly, yet it can still drive membrane bending and fission by transmitting its mechanical properties through adaptor proteins.
Our collaborators:
@samuelfoley.com
@mejohnson81.bsky.social
BioRxiv link:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
