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Membrane fluidity

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Multilayer mems cantilevers

The present invention relates to a cantilever or membrane comprising a body and an elongated beam attached to the body. The elongated beam includes a first layer comprising a first material, a second layer comprising a second material having an elastic mod ...

2016

Solution structure of discoidal high-density lipoprotein particles with a shortened apolipoprotein A-I

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg

High-density lipoprotein (HDL) particles are cholesterol and lipid transport containers. Mature HDL particles destined for the liver develop through the formation of intermediate discoidal HDL particles, which are the primary acceptors for cholesterol. Her ...

Springer Nature2016

Mechanical modeling of a magnetic membrane for a soft actuator

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne, Cécile Gisèle Aimée Jeannine Cuchet

The proposed paper presents the fabrication and the modeling of magnetic membranes composed of Fe2O3 or NdFeB powder, and which could be polarized in order to create soft magnets. In this paper, two hyperelastic models (Yeoh and Gent) are chosen to describ ...

IEEE2016

Intermolecular Headgroup Interaction and Hydration as Driving Forces for Lipid Transmembrane Asymmetry

Sylvie Roke, Nikolay Smolentsev, Halil Ibrahim Okur, Cornelis Ulrich Lütgebaucks

Variations between the inner and outer leaflets of cell membranes are crucial for cell functioning and signaling, drug–membrane interactions, and the formation of lipid domains. Transmembrane asymmetry can in principle be comprised of an asymmetric charge ...

American Chemical Society2016

Influence of the glycocalyx and plasma membrane composition on amphiphilic gold nanoparticle association with erythrocytes

Francesco Stellacci, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Randy Patrick Carney, Ye Yang, Ahmet Bekdemir

Erythrocytes are attractive as potential cell-based drug carriers because of their abundance and long life-span in vivo. Existing methods for loading drug cargos into erythrocytes include hypotonic treatments, electroporation, and covalent attachment onto ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Large-Scale Arrays of Bowtie Nanoaperture Antennas for Nanoscale Dynamics in Living Cell Membranes

Jürgen Brugger, Valentin Flauraud

We present a novel blurring-free stencil lithography patterning technique for high-throughput fabrication of large-scale arrays of nanoaperture optical antennas. The approach relies on dry etching through nanostencils to achieve reproducible and uniform co ...

American Chemical Society2015

PSII-LHCII Supercomplex Organizations in Photosynthetic Membrane by Coarse-Grained Simulation

Berend Smit

Green plant Photosystem II (PSII) and light-harvesting complex II (LHCLI) in the stacked grana regions of thylakoid membranes can self-organize into various PSII LHCII supercomplexes With crystalline Of fluid-like supramolecular structures to adjust themse ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Monitoring the Cellular Cholesterol Distribution via NanoSIMS Imaging

Mustafa Demir

Cholesterol is a very crucial lipid for animal cells, since it is the building block of cellular membranes, control fluidity of membranes, regulate intracellular transport, cell signalling, nerve conduction and serve as a precursor for synthesis of vitamin ...

2015

The effects of globotriaosylceramide tail saturation level on bilayer phases

Julian Charles Shillcock

Globotriaosylceramide (Gb(3)) is a glycosphingolipid present in the plasma membrane that is the natural receptor of the bacterial Shiga toxin. The unsaturation level of Gb(3) acyl chains has a drastic impact on lipid bilayer properties and phase behaviour, ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Monitoring the Cellular Cholesterol Distribution via nanoSIMS Imaging

Mustafa Demir

Cholesterol is a very important lipid, manufactured by all animal cells for their use. About 20-25% of total daily cholesterol production occurs in the liver; other sites that have higher synthesis rate are intestine, adrenal glands and reproductive organs ...

2015

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