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Biomimetic Cationic Nanoparticles Based on Silica: Optimizing Bilayer Deposition from Lipid Films
Biomimetics, 2017 The optimization of bilayer coverage on particles is important for a variety of biomedical applications, such as drug, vaccine, and genetic material delivery.
Rodrigo T. Ribeiro +2 more
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eLife, 2022 Cleavage of membrane proteins in the lipid bilayer by intramembrane proteases is crucial for health and disease. Although different lipid environments can potently modulate their activity, how this is linked to their structural dynamics is unclear. Here,
Lukas P Feilen +5 more
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Cells, 2021 Build-up of the energized state of thylakoid membranes and the synthesis of ATP are warranted by organizing their bulk lipids into a bilayer. However, the major lipid species of these membranes, monogalactosyldiacylglycerol, is a non-bilayer lipid.
Ondřej Dlouhý +7 more
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Interaction Between Benzanthrone Dye and Model Lipid Membranes
East European Journal of Physics, 2020 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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Study on Molecular Thermal Energy Transfer in a Lipid Bilayer
Journal of Thermal Science and Technology, 2008 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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Interactions of Novel Phosphonium Dye with Lipid Bilayers: A Molecular Dynamics Study
East European Journal of Physics, 2022 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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Data in Brief, 2021 Data of the osmotic water permeability of a lipid bilayer (diphytanoylphosphaticylcholin) in the presence of cholesterol (30 mole%) are shown under the simultaneous measurement of bilayer tension.
Keita Yano +3 more
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Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2021 Once membrane potential changes or ligand binding activates the ion channel, the activity of the channel is finely modulated by the fluctuating membrane environment, involving local lipid composition and membrane tension.
Masayuki Iwamoto, Shigetoshi Oiki
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Lipid membranes in nature adapt and reconfigure to changes in composition, temperature, humidity, and mechanics. For instance, the oscillating mechanical forces on lung cells and alveoli influence membrane synthesis and structure during breathing ...
Marilyn Porras-Gómez +7 more
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Membranes, 2021 We characterized the size, distribution, and fluidity of microdomains in a lipid bilayer containing phosphatidylinositol (PI) and revealed their roles during the two-dimensional assembly of a membrane deformation protein (FBP17).
Toshinori Motegi +4 more
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