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Cholesterols Work as a Molecular Regulator of the Antimicrobial Peptide-Membrane Interactions

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021
The existing cholesterols (Chols) in animal cell membranes play key roles in many fundamental cellular processes, which also promise the possibility to modulate the bioactivity of various membrane-active biomacromolecules.
Jia Li, Xuemei Lu, Xuemei Lu, Wendong Ma, Zhonglan Chen, Shuqing Sun, Qinghui Wang, Bing Yuan, Kai Yang   +8 more
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Membrane‐Mediated Force Transduction Drives Stick‐Slip Motion of Lipid Vesicles

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A rotating magnetic field actuates a ferromagnetic particle inside a lipid vesicle, generating internal flows that induce stick‐slip propulsion near a surface. Membrane properties—elasticity, excess area, and phase behavior—modulate this motion by shaping stress dissipation and force transduction.
Paula Magrinya, Arin Escobar Ortiz, Juan L. Aragones, Laura R. Arriaga   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Electroformation in a flow chamber with solution exchange as a means of preparation of flaccid giant vesicles

, 2008
A recently described technique (Estes and Mayer, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1712 (2005) 152--160) for the preparation of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) in solutions with high ionic strength is examined.
Akashi, Angelova, Angelova, Angelova, Angelova, Bagatolli, Bloom, Božič, Bresseleers, Deamer, Dimova, D’Errico, Estes, Estes, Estes, Evans, Heinrich, Hope, Koslov, Kralj-Iglič, Kuribayashi, Mally, Mally, Mathivet, Morse, Moscho, Needham, Okumura, Olbrich, Orbach, Paula, Paula, Primož Peterlin, Redelmeier, Reeves, Riske, Rodriguez, Taylor, Ternström, Vesna Arrigler, Yamashita   +40 more
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Taming membranes: functional immobilization of biological membranes in hydrogels. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Single molecule studies on membrane proteins embedded in their native environment are hampered by the intrinsic difficulty of immobilizing elastic and sensitive biological membranes without interfering with protein activity.
Ilja Kusters, Nobina Mukherjee, Menno R de Jong, Sander Tans, Armağan Koçer, Arnold J M Driessen   +5 more
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Permeability of phospholipid membrane for small polar molecules determined from osmotic swelling of giant phospholipid vesicles

, 2012
A method for determining permeability of phospholipid bilayer based on the osmotic swelling of micrometer-sized giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) is presented as an alternative to the two established techniques, dynamic light scattering on liposome ...
Al-Awqati, Angelova, Bangham, Bangham, Barry, Bloom, Boroske, Brunner, Carlsen, Cohen, de Gier, de Gier, Diamant, Dimova, Döbereiner, Evans, Finkelstein, Haleva, Heimburg, Heinrich, Hill, Jacobs, Karatekin, Katchalsky, Kedem, Kleinhans, Koslov, Krasteva, Mally, Mally, Mazur, Mazur, Meyer, Missner, Montal, Mueller, Nagle, Onsager, Onsager, Orbach, Overton, Paula, Pavlič, Pencer, Pencer, Peterlin, Peterlin, Peterlin, Pike, Pocivavsek, Popescu, Preston, Rawicz, Sandre, Seifert, Sha'afi, Shoemaker, Tien, Verkman, Walter, Wang, Zade-Oppen   +61 more
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Construction of membrane-bound artificial cells using microfluidics: a new frontier in bottom-up synthetic biology [PDF]

, 2016
The quest to construct artificial cells from the bottom-up using simple building blocks has received much attention over recent decades and is one of the grand challenges in synthetic biology.
Elani, Y
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Integrating Digital Technologies Into Biochemistry Education: A Decade of Efforts, Pandemic Impacts, and Emerging Insights

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review critically examines the integration of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDICs) in biochemistry education over the past decade, highlighting both the benefits and challenges from a critical theoretical perspective. A systematic review was conducted to identify relevant literature, followed by thematic analysis and
Francis Pereira‐Dias, Marina Bazzo de Espíndola   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Law of corresponding states for osmotic swelling of vesicles

, 2012
As solute molecules permeate into a vesicle due to a concentration difference across its membrane, the vesicle swells through osmosis. The swelling can be divided into two stages: (a) an "ironing" stage, where the volume-to-area ratio of the vesicle ...
Angelova, Diamant, Dimova, Dordas, Döbereiner, Emir Haleva, Evans, Farago, Farago, Fournier, Haim Diamant, Haleva, Haleva, Heinrich, Helfrich, Krasteva, Linke, Litster, Mally, Marsh, Milner, Mui, Orbach, Patel, Paula, Peterlin, Peterlin, Pocivavsek, Primož Peterlin, Schmid, Seifert, Vesna Arrigler, Vitkova   +32 more
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Nanoporous silica-based protocells at multiple scales for designs of life and nanomedicine. [PDF]

, 2015
Various protocell models have been constructed de novo with the bottom-up approach. Here we describe a silica-based protocell composed of a nanoporous amorphous silica core encapsulated within a lipid bilayer built by self-assembly that provides for ...
Brinker, C Jeffrey, Jakobsson, Eric, Sun, Jie, Wang, Yingxiao   +3 more
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Advancing design strategies in smart stimulus‐responsive liposomes for drug release and nanomedicine

BMEMat, EarlyView.
Schematic illustration of stimulus‐responsive liposomes designed for controlled drug release and nanomedicine. The innermost circle represents different liposomal structures, including unilamellar, multilamellar, and multivesicular liposomes. The middle layer illustrates the responsive phospholipid components.
Yuchen Guo, Nan Li, Daiwei Zhang, Jingya Gu, Zhihuan Liao, Zihao Teng, Xiangfu Du, Peter S. Timashev, Shipeng Chen, Shuaidong Huo   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source