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Artificial Lipid Membranes: Past, Present, and Future
Membranes, 2017 The multifaceted role of biological membranes prompted early the development of artificial lipid-based models with a primary view of reconstituting the natural functions in vitro so as to study and exploit chemoreception for sensor engineering.
Christina G. Siontorou +3 more
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Permeability across lipid membranes.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 2016 Molecular permeation through lipid membranes is a fundamental biological process that is important for small neutral molecules and drug molecules. Precise characterization of free energy surface and diffusion coefficients along the permeation pathway is required in order to predict molecular permeability and elucidate the molecular mechanisms of ...
W. Shinoda
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Protective Function of Lipid Rafts [PDF]
Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2021 The study of lipid rafts allowed us to take a new look at the morphology, organization and functioning of membranes, both of animal and plant origin.
I.S. Kapustina +4 more
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Cholesterol Stiffening of Lipid Membranes
Journal of Membrane Biology, 2022 Biomembrane order, dynamics, and other essential physicochemical parameters are controlled by cholesterol, a major component of mammalian cell membranes.
F. Doole +3 more
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Microplastics destabilize lipid membranes by mechanical stretching
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Significance The effects of plastic pollution on living organisms is a highly debated subject. There is no direct evidence of high toxicity of microplastic abundantly present in the environment.
Jean-Baptiste Fleury, V. Baulin
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Lipid and Lipidation in Membrane Fusion
The Journal of Membrane Biology, 2022 Membrane fusion plays a lead role in the transport of vesicles, neurotransmission, mitochondrial dynamics, and viral infection. There are fusion proteins that catalyze and regulate the fusion. Interestingly, various types of fusion proteins are present in nature and they possess diverse mechanisms of action.
Avijit Sardar +4 more
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Preparation of artificial plasma membrane mimicking vesicles with lipid asymmetry. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Lipid asymmetry, the difference in lipid distribution across the lipid bilayer, is one of the most important features of eukaryotic cellular membranes.
Qingqing Lin, Erwin London
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Membranes, 2021 Early cell membrane models placed most proteins external to lipid bilayers in trimolecular structures or as modular lipoprotein units. These thermodynamically untenable structures did not allow lipid lateral movements independent of membrane proteins ...
Garth L. Nicolson +1 more
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Membranes, 2023 The lipid membranes of living cells are composed of a large number of lipid types and can undergo phase separation with the formation of nanometer-scale liquid-ordered lipid domains, also called rafts. Raft coalescence, i.e., the fusion of lipid domains,
Konstantin V. Pinigin, Sergey A. Akimov
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Spiroplasma membrane lipids [PDF]
Journal of Bacteriology, 1985 Membranes of six spiroplasma strains belonging to different Spiroplasma species and subgroups were isolated by a combination of osmotic lysis and sonication in the presence of EDTA to block endogenous phospholipase activity. Analysis of membrane lipids showed that in addition to free and esterified cholesterol the spiroplasmas incorporated exogenous ...
P J, Davis +3 more
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