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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Cell Biol. 2012 Nov 2;23(2):47–53. doi: 10.1016/j.tcb.2012.09.006

Figure 1. Feedback between plasma membrane tension and cellular processes.

Figure 1

Examples of cellular processes that occur when PM tension is too high and that lead to its reduction (left) or that occur when PM tension is too low and lead to its increase (right) — vesicle trafficking, caveolae formation, actin polymerization and changes in myosin based. In brackets we comment on the parameters of Eq. 1 and 2 in Box 2 that are predicted to change in each of these processes.