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Lipid Transporters Beam Signals from Cell Membranes
Membranes, 2021 Lipid composition in cellular membranes plays an important role in maintaining the structural integrity of cells and in regulating cellular signaling that controls functions of both membrane-anchored and cytoplasmic proteins.
Miliça Ristovski +3 more
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Membrane Heterogeneity Beyond the Plasma Membrane
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020 The structure and organization of cellular membranes have received intense interest, particularly in investigations of the raft hypothesis. The vast majority of these investigations have focused on the plasma membrane of mammalian cells, yielding ...
Hong-Yin Wang +3 more
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How cholesterol stiffens unsaturated lipid membranes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance Cholesterol regulates critical cell functions, including lysis, viral budding, and antibiotic resistance, by modifying the bending rigidity of cell membranes; i.e., the ability of membranes to bend or withstand mechanical stresses.
Saptarshi Chakraborty +13 more
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The effects of molecular and nanoscopic additives on phospholipid membranes
Frontiers in Physics, 2023 Lipid bilayers—the main matrix of cell membranes—are a paradigm of soft molecular assemblies whose properties have been evolutionarily optimized to satisfy the functional requirements of cells.
Teshani Kumarage +5 more
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Nature Communications, 2020 Lipid membranes are found in most intracellular organelles, and their heterogeneities play an essential role in regulating the organelles’ biochemical functionalities.
Karl Zhanghao +11 more
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Photosynthetica, 2023 Thylakoid membranes are energy-converting membranes with a unique lipid composition. Though the membranes are primarily composed of proteins, their photosynthetic function is strongly influenced by the lipid constituents.
B. FEHÉR, I.K. VOETS, G. NAGY
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Interactions of α-synuclein oligomers with lipid membranes.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes, 2020 Parkinson's disease is an increasingly prevalent and currently incurable neurodegenerative disorder. At the molecular level, this disease is characterized by the formation of aberrant intracellular protein deposits known as Lewy bodies.
Greta Musteikyte +5 more
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Asymmetric Lipid Membranes under Shear Flows: A Dissipative Particle Dynamics Study
Membranes, 2021 We investigate the phase behavior of the asymmetric lipid membranes under shear flows, using the dissipative particle dynamics simulation. Two cases, the weak and strong shear flows, are considered for the asymmetric lipid microstructures.
Yanying Chen +5 more
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Scaling relationships for the elastic moduli and viscosity of mixed lipid membranes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance Life requires a delicate balance between cell membrane rigidity and fluidity to define cell boundaries yet enable cell deformation, growth, and division. Here, we bridge the molecular and macroscopic scales with neutron scattering techniques
Elizabeth G. Kelley +4 more
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Forces in Mechanics, 2021 Single strand DNA-wrapped Single-walled carbon nanotubes (ssDNA-SWCNTs) have critical biomedical applications such as drug delivery, bio-imaging and bio-sensing; therefore, the mechanical interaction between ssDNA-SWCNTs and lipid membranes is an ...
Daisuke Miyashiro +3 more
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