A. H. Beaven

This study shows that variance in curvature sensitivity of lipids affects membrane stiffness, with coarse-grained models showing greater softening due to clustering.

This study shows that cholesterol binds to the amphipathic helix of IFITM3, influencing its antiviral activity by affecting membrane rigidity and fusion pore formation.

The paper shows cholesterol exclusion from fusion pore necks due to negative curvature, promoting pore closure.

This study uses molecular dynamics simulations to test assumptions about lipid curvature and bilayer mechanics, finding non-additive curvature preferences and two mechanisms of bilayer softening.

The paper quantifies the spatial influence of individual lipids on membrane mechanics, finding that saturated lipids have non-local effects with maximal interaction strength at a finite length-scale.