Modeling the Excess Cell Surface Stored in a Complex Morphology of Bleb-Like Protrusions

• Maryna Kapustina ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maryna Kapustina, Denis Tsygankov, Jia Zhao

  * E-mail: mkapust@med.unc.edu (MK); wangq@mailbox.sc.edu (QW); Kenneth_Jacobson@med.unc.edu (KJ); forest@unc.edu (MGF)

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Denis Tsygankov ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maryna Kapustina, Denis Tsygankov, Jia Zhao

  Affiliations Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jia Zhao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maryna Kapustina, Denis Tsygankov, Jia Zhao

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Timothy Wessler,

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Xiaofeng Yang,

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Alex Chen,

  Current address: Risk Analytics Laboratory, GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Nathan Roach,

  Current address: Department of Biology; Program in Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Biology and Biophysics; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America,

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Timothy C. Elston,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Qi Wang ,

  * E-mail: mkapust@med.unc.edu (MK); wangq@mailbox.sc.edu (QW); Kenneth_Jacobson@med.unc.edu (KJ); forest@unc.edu (MGF)

  ¶‡ QW, KJ, and MGF also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Ken Jacobson ,

  * E-mail: mkapust@med.unc.edu (MK); wangq@mailbox.sc.edu (QW); Kenneth_Jacobson@med.unc.edu (KJ); forest@unc.edu (MGF)

  ¶‡ QW, KJ, and MGF also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• M. Gregory Forest

  * E-mail: mkapust@med.unc.edu (MK); wangq@mailbox.sc.edu (QW); Kenneth_Jacobson@med.unc.edu (KJ); forest@unc.edu (MGF)

  ¶‡ QW, KJ, and MGF also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Departments of Applied Physical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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