A. J. Sodt

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

The paper validates that lipid diffusion reduces membrane stiffness in binary lipid mixtures by analyzing undulation relaxation in giant unilamellar vesicles.

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.

This paper quantifies the conditions necessary for stable clathrin assembly on membranes, showing that sufficient adaptor proteins are required to prevent spontaneous disassembly.

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.

This paper introduces an implicit lipid model for efficient reaction-diffusion simulations of protein binding to surfaces of arbitrary topology, showing agreement with explicit lipid models and enabling stable multi-protein complex formation.