Current Topics in Membranes provides a systematic, comprehensive, and rigorous approach to specific topics relevant to the study of cellular membranes. Each volume is a guest edited compendium of membrane biology. This series has been a mainstay for practicing scientists and students interested in this critical field of biology. Articles covered in the volume include The Mechanical Properties of Bilayers, Molecular Dynamic Modeling of MS Channels, Structures of the Prokaryotic Mechanosensitive, Channels MscL and MscS, 3.5 Billion Years of Mechanosensory Transduction: Structure and Function of Mechanosensitive Channels in Prokaryotes, Activation of Mechanosensitive Ion Channels by Forces Transmitted through Integrins and the Cytoskeleton, Thermodynamics of Mechanosensitivity, Flexoelectricity and Mechanotransduction, Lipid Effects on Mechanosensitive Channels, Functional Interactions of the Extracellular Matrix with Mechanosensitive Channels, MSCL: The Bacterial Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance, The Bacterial Mechanosensitive Channel MscS: Emerging Principles of Gating and Modulation, Structure function relations of MscS, The MscS Cytoplasmic Domain and its Conformational Changes upon the Channel Gating, Microbial TRP Channels and Their Mechanosensitivity, MSCS-Like Proteins in Plants, Delivering Force and Amplifying Signals in Plant Mechanosensing, MS Channels in Tip Growing Systems.