We are taught that plasma membranes are a typical lipid bilayer, but how do we know this, and who figured it out? Aa Aa Aa Most books mention that membranes have a typical "lipid bilayer," but why ...

most such membrane preparations are therefore more properly described as 'enrichments' rather than purifications. (ii) Each leaflet of the cell's bilayer membranes has a different lipid ...

Lipid bilayer forms a water-impermeable barrier that defines the boundary of a cell and of specialized compartments within a cell. Membrane proteins are embedded in lipid bilayers and serve a wide ...

This important study characterizes the mechanics and stability of bolalipids from archaeal membranes using molecular dynamics simulations. A mesoscale model of bolalipids is presented and evaluated ...

Assembly and budding of a virus from a membrane microdomain. Viruses have an outer protein shell called a capsid which surrounds the viral nucleic acid. Enveloped viruses, such as HIV, have an ...

This work presents a membrane-targeted azobenzene (MT) as light-responsive tool for cell stimulation. MT photoisomerization ...

The lipid bilayer contains a mixture of cationic and ... to electrostatic interactions between the negatively charge cell membrane and cationic lipids. The coated PEG provides a neutral ...

In contrast to organelles with a lipid bilayer membrane, membraneless structures are formed through a process known as liquid-liquid phase separation. When it comes to how and why cells create and use ...

To date, these carriers have predominantly relied on amphiphilicity as the key property enabling them to cross the lipid ...

This dance involves some surprisingly complicated choreography within the lipid bilayers that comprise cell membranes and ... like synthetic materials. Double-membrane vesicles have inner and ...