Structural and functional consequences of reversible lipid asymmetry in living membranes

M Doktorova, JL Symons, I Levental - Nature chemical biology, 2020 - nature.com
Maintenance of lipid asymmetry across the two leaflets of the plasma membrane (PM)
bilayer is a ubiquitous feature of eukaryotic cells. Loss of this asymmetry has been widely …

Molecular substructure of the liquid-ordered phase formed by sphingomyelin and cholesterol: Sphingomyelin clusters forming nano-subdomains are a characteristic …

M Murata, N Matsumori, M Kinoshita, E London - Biophysical reviews, 2022 - Springer
As a model of lipid rafts, the liquid-ordered (Lo) phase formed by sphingomyelin (SM) and
cholesterol (Cho) in bilayer membranes has long attracted the attention of biophysics …

LiPyphilic: A Python toolkit for the analysis of lipid membrane simulations

P Smith, CD Lorenz - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2021 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics simulations are now widely used to study emergent phenomena in lipid
membranes with complex compositions. Here, we present LiPyphilic—a fast, fully tested …

Thermal-controlled cellular uptake of “hot” nanoparticles

H Chen, X Dong, L Ou, C Ma, B Yuan, K Yang - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoparticles (NPs) have shown immense potential in the field of biomedical applications,
particularly in NP-based photothermal therapy, which offers a remote-controlled approach to …

Ceramide-1-phosphate transfer protein enhances lipid transport by disrupting hydrophobic lipid–membrane contacts

JR Rogers, PL Geissler - PLOS Computational Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Cellular distributions of the sphingolipid ceramide-1-phosphate (C1P) impact essential
biological processes. C1P levels are spatiotemporally regulated by ceramide-1-phosphate …

Complex nanoemulsion for vitamin delivery: droplet organization and interaction with skin membranes

N Machado, BMH Bruininks, P Singh, L Dos Santos… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Lipid nanoemulsions are promising nanomaterials for drug delivery applications in food,
pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Despite the noteworthy commercial interest, little is …

[HTML][HTML] Extension of the iSoLF implicit-solvent coarse-grained model for multicomponent lipid bilayers

D Ugarte La Torre, S Takada, Y Sugita - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
iSoLF is a coarse-grained (CG) model for lipid molecules with the implicit-solvent
approximation used in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of biological membranes …

Phosphatidylinositol 4, 5-bisphosphate sensing lipid raft via inter-leaflet coupling regulated by acyl chain length of sphingomyelin

S Li, F Huang, T **a, Y Shi, T Yue - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Phosphatidylinositol 4, 5-bisphosphate (PIP2) is an important molecule located at the inner
leaflet of cell membrane, where it serves as anchoring sites for a cohort of membrane …

[HTML][HTML] Polymyxin B1 in the Escherichia coli inner membrane: A complex story of protein and lipopolysaccharide-mediated insertion

D Weerakoon, JK Marzinek, C Pedebos… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rise in multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections has led to an increased
need for “last-resort” antibiotics such as polymyxins. However, the emergence of polymyxin …

Investigation of the domain line tension in asymmetric vesicles prepared via hemifusion

TA Enoki, J Wu, FA Heberle, GW Feigenson - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2021 - Elsevier
The plasma membrane (PM) is asymmetric in lipid composition. The distinct and
characteristic lipid compositions of the exoplasmic and cytoplasmic leaflets lead to different …