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2015 ; 10
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The Energy of COPI for Budding Membranes
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Thiam AR
; Pincet F
PLoS One
2015[]; 10
(7
): e0133757
PMID26218078
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As a major actor of cellular trafficking, COPI coat proteins assemble on
membranes and locally bend them to bud 60 nm-size coated particles. Budding
requires the energy of the coat assembly to overcome the one necessary to deform
the membrane which primarily depends on the bending modulus and surface tension,
?. Using a COPI-induced oil nanodroplet formation approach, we modulated the
budding of nanodroplets using various amounts and types of surfactant. We found a
Heaviside-like dependence between the budding efficiency and ?: budding was only
dependent on ? and occurred beneath 1.3 mN/m. With the sole contribution of ? to
the membrane deformation energy, we assessed that COPI supplies ~1500 kBT for
budding particles from membranes, which is consistent with common membrane
deformation energies. Our results highlight how a simple remodeling of the
composition of membranes could mechanically modulate budding in cells.