Volumetric stability of lipid bilayers [PDF]
In agreement with recent reports, a commercial densimeter has yielded a gradual decrease in lipid molecular volume of DPPC multilamellar vesicle dispersions in the gel phase upon repeated thermal cycling between 10 °C and 50 °C. The considerable size of this decrease would have significant implications for the physical chemistry of biomembranes.
Hallinen, Kelsey M. +2 more
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Energetics of lipid bilayers with applications to deformations induced by inclusions [PDF]
A new energy for the description of large deformations of lipid bilayers is formulated with mathematical rigor. This energy is derived by considering the smectic A liquid crystalline nature of lipid bilayers and the coupling between the deformations of ...
De Vita, R., Stewart, Iain W.
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Lipid bilayer composition influences small multidrug transporters [PDF]
Background: Membrane proteins are influenced by their surrounding lipids. We investigate the effect of bilayer composition on the membrane transport activity of two members of the small multidrug resistance family; the Escherichia coli transporter, EmrE
Charalambous, K +10 more
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Micromachined glass apertures for artificial lipid bilayer formation in a microfluidic system [PDF]
The use of spark assisted chemical engraving (SACE) to produce glass apertures that are suitable for the formation of artificial bilayer lipid membranes is described.
Uttamchandani, D.G. +288 more
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Interaction Between Benzanthrone Dye and Model Lipid Membranes
The benzanthrone fluorescent dyes are known as environmentally-sensitive reporters for exploring the physicochemical properties and structural alterations of lipid membranes.
Olga Zhytniakivska
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Molecular Interaction of a New Antibacterial Polymer with a Supported Lipid Bilayer Measured by an in situ Label-Free Optical Technique [PDF]
The interaction of the antibacterial polymer–branched poly(ethylene imine) substituted with quaternary ammonium groups, PEO and alkyl chains, PEI25QI5J5A815–with a solid supported lipid bilayer was investigated using surface sensitive optical waveguide ...
Éva Kiss +14 more
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Study on Molecular Thermal Energy Transfer in a Lipid Bilayer
Recently, lipid bilayers attract a great deal of interest as a material with nanoscale structure. Various devices utilizing lipid bilayers, which include some kinds of sensors and molecular sorting devices, have been proposed.
Takeo NAKANO, Taku OHARA, Gota KIKUGAWA
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Shaped Apertures in Photoresist Films Enhance the Lifetime and Mechanical Stability of Suspended Lipid Bilayers [PDF]
Planar lipid bilayers suspended in apertures provide a controlled environment for ion channel studies. However, short lifetimes and poor mechanical stability of suspended bilayers limit the experimental throughput of bilayer electrophysiology experiments.
Kalsi, S. +9 more
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Lipid Bilayer Structure Refinement with SAXS/SANS Based Restrained Ensemble Molecular Dynamics [PDF]
Small-angle scattering is a powerful technique that can probe the structure of lipid bilayers on the nanometer scale. Retrieving the real space structure of lipid bilayers from the scattering intensity can be a challenging task, as their fluid nature ...
Yevhen, Cherniavskyi +3 more
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Interactions of Novel Phosphonium Dye with Lipid Bilayers: A Molecular Dynamics Study
In the present work the 100-ns molecular dynamics simulations (MD) were performed in the CHARMM36m force field using the GROMACS package to estimate the bilayer location and mechanisms of the interaction between the novel phosphonium dye TDV and the ...
Olga Zhytniakivska
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