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Membrane fluidity

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Lipid Internal Dynamics Probed in Nanodiscs

Nanodiscs offer a very promising tool to incorporate membrane proteins into native-like lipid bilayers and an alternative to liposomes to maintain protein functions and protein-lipid interactions in a soluble nanoscale object. The activity of the incorpora ...

Wiley2017

Elastic and dynamic properties of membrane phase-field models

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora

Phase-field models have been extensively used to study interfacial phenomena, from solidification to vesicle dynamics. In this article, we analyze a phase-field model that captures the relevant physical features that characterize biological membranes. We s ...

Springer2017

Studying membrane-protein interplay by modeling realistic conditions

Martina Audagnotto

Realistic models of cellular environments have long captured the imagination of biologists and physical scientists. More than 20 years ago, Goodshellâs inspiring rendering of cellular environments provided the foundation for the idea of capturing the ful ...

EPFL2017

Damage of eukaryotic cells by the pore-forming toxin sticholysin II: Consequences of the potassium efflux

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Sylvia Ho

Pore-forming toxins (PFTs) form holes in membranes causing one of the most catastrophic damages to a target cell. Target organisms have evolved a regulated response against PFTs damage including cell membrane repair. This ability of cells strongly depends ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Monitoring Membrane Lipidome Turnover by Metabolic N-15 Labeling and Shotgun Ultra-High-Resolution Orbitrap Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry

Yury Tsybin, Konstantin Nagornov, Kristina Srzentic

Lipidomes undergo permanent extensive remodeling, but how the turnover rate differs between lipid classes and molecular species is poorly understood. We employed metabolic N-15 labeling and shotgun ultra-high-resolution mass spectrometry (sUHR) to quantify ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Proteoliposomes - a system to study membrane proteins under buffer gradients by cryo-EM

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg

Membrane proteins are vital to life and major therapeutic targets. Yet, understanding how they function is limited by a lack of structural information. In biological cells, membrane proteins reside in lipidic membranes and typically experience different bu ...

Walter de Gruyter GmbH2017

Planar Optical Nanoantennas Resolve Cholesterol-Dependent Nanoscale Heterogeneities in the Plasma Membrane of Living Cells

Jürgen Brugger, Pamina Winkler, Valentin Flauraud, Raju Regmi

Optical nanoantennas can efficiently confine light into nanoscopic hotspots, enabling single-molecule detection sensitivity at biological relevant conditions. This innovative approach to breach the diffraction limit offers a versatile platform to investiga ...

2017

Identification of the ER-resident E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF145 as a novel LXR-regulated gene

Vincenzo Sorrentino

Cellular cholesterol metabolism is subject to tight regulation to maintain adequate levels of this central lipid molecule. Herein, the sterol-responsive Liver X Receptors (LXRs) play an important role owing to their ability to reduce cellular cholesterol l ...

2017

Sputtered Gum metal thin films showing bacterial inactivation and biocompatibility

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi

Super-elastic Titanium based thin films Ti-23Nb-0.7Ta-2Zr-(O) (TNTZ-O) and Ti-24Nb-(N) (TN-N) (at.%) were deposited by direct current magnetron sputtering (DCMS) in different reactive atmospheres. The effects of oxygen doping (TNTZ-O) and/or nitrogen dopin ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Pre-transition effects mediate forces of assembly between transmembrane proteins

Berend Smit

We present a mechanism for a generic, powerful force of assembly and mobility for transmembrane proteins in lipid bilayers. This force is a pre-transition (or pre-melting) effect for the first-order transition between ordered and disordered phases in the m ...

Elife Sciences Publications Ltd2016

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