Allen P. Liu

Photopatterning of actin filament structures.

Actin polymerization serves as a membrane domain switch in model lipid bilayers.

Differential force microscope for long time-scale biophysical measurements.

Unilamellar vesicle formation and encapsulation by microfluidic jetting.

Biology under construction: in vitro reconstitution of cellular function.

Global and local regulation of clathrin-coated pit dynamics detected on patterned substrates.

Membrane-induced bundling of actin filaments.

Multivalent display and receptor-mediated endocytosis of transferrin on virus-like particles.

Local clustering of transferrin receptors promotes clathrin-coated pit initiation.

Cofactoring and dimerization of proteinase-activated receptors.

Uniaxial cell stretching device for live-cell imaging of mechanosensitive cellular functions.

A microfluidic pipette array for mechanophenotyping of cancer cells and mechanical gating of mechanosensitive channels.

The Application of Micropipette Aspiration in Molecular Mechanics of Single Cells.

Cell spreading area regulates clathrin-coated pit dynamics on micropatterned substrate.

Biophysical Tools for Cellular and Subcellular Mechanical Actuation of Cell Signaling.

New advances in probing cell-extracellular matrix interactions.

Notch signaling in regulating angiogenesis in a 3D biomimetic environment.

Cell-sized mechanosensitive and biosensing compartment programmed with DNA.

Loss of PTEN promotes formation of signaling-capable clathrin-coated pits.

A synthetic biology platform for the reconstitution and mechanistic dissection of LINC complex assembly.

Encapsulation of the cytoskeleton: towards mimicking the mechanics of a cell.

The New Age of Cell-Free Biology.

In search of a novel chassis material for synthetic cells: emergence of synthetic peptide compartment.

Complimentary action of structured and unstructured domains of epsin supports clathrin-mediated endocytosis at high tension.

β-arrestin mediates communication between plasma membrane and intracellular GPCRs to regulate signaling.

Actin crosslinker competition and sorting drive emergent GUV size-dependent actin network architecture.

Facile formation of giant elastin-like polypeptide vesicles as synthetic cells.

Compression enhances invasive phenotype and matrix degradation of breast Cancer cells via Piezo1 activation.

In Vitro Reconstitution Platforms of Mammalian Cell-Free Expressed Membrane Proteins.

The living interface between synthetic biology and biomaterial design.

Differential regulation of GUV mechanics via actin network architectures.

Calcium-triggered DNA-mediated membrane fusion in synthetic cells.

Development of mechanosensitive synthetic cells for biomedical applications.

A Mammalian-Based Synthetic Biology Toolbox to Engineer Membrane-Membrane Interfaces.