  Cell adhesion proteins typically form stable clusters that anchor the cell
membrane to its environment. Several works have suggested that cell membrane
protein clusters can emerge from a local feedback between the membrane
curvature and the density of proteins. Here, we investigate the effect of such
curvature-sensing mechanism in the context of cell adhesion proteins. We show
how clustering emerges in an intermediate range of adhesion and
curvature-sensing strengths. We identify key differences with the tilt-induced
gradient sensing mechanism we previously proposed (Lin et al.,
arXiv:2307.03670, 2023).
