Eukaryotic cell membranes: structure, composition, research methods and computational modelling

A Zhukov, V Popov - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper deals with the problems encountered in the study of eukaryotic cell membranes.
A discussion on the structure and composition of membranes, lateral heterogeneity of …

[HTML][HTML] Polar Glycerolipids and Membrane Lipid Rafts

A Zhukov, M Vereshchagin - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Current understanding of the structure and functioning of biomembranes is impossible
without determining the mechanism of formation of membrane lipid rafts. The formation of …

Spatially resolving size effects on diffusivity in nanoporous extracellular matrix-like materials with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy super-resolution optical …

S Chatterjee, SN Kramer, B Wellnitz… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
It is well documented that the nanoscale structures within porous microenvironments greatly
impact the diffusion dynamics of molecules. However, how the interaction between the …

Confined Brownian motion tracked with motion blur: estimating diffusion coefficient and size of confining space

KI Mortensen, H Flyvbjerg, JN Pedersen - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mesoscopic environments and particles diffusing in them are often studied by tracking such
particles individually while their Brownian motion explores their environment. Environments …

Cross-correlation increases sampling in diffusion-based super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging

J Antarasen, B Wellnitz, SN Kramer… - … & Biomedical Imaging, 2024 - ACS Publications
Correlation signal processing of optical three-dimensional (x, y, t) data can produce super-
resolution images. The second-order cross-correlation function XC 2 has been documented …

Microscopy imaging of living cells in metabolic engineering

X Lv, K **, G Sun, R Ledesma-Amaro, L Liu - Trends in biotechnology, 2022 - cell.com
Microscopy imaging of living cells is becoming a pivotal, noninvasive, and highly specific
tool in metabolic engineering to visualize molecular dynamics in industrial microorganisms …

Supported Lipid Bilayers as Stochastic Conveyor Belt for Delivery to the Near Field of Nanoscopic Structures

Y Tuna, V Sandoghdar - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2024 - ACS Publications
Placement of nanoscopic entities in the optical near field of a structure such as a plasmonic
nanoantenna or the aperture of a scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) remains a …

Quantitative image mean squared displacement (iMSD) analysis of the dynamics of Aquaporin 2 within the membrane of live cells

YMZ Díaz, JL Kure, RA Grosso, C Andersen… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanodomains are a biological membrane phenomenon which have a large impact on
various cellular processes. They are often analysed by looking at the lateral dynamics of …

Nanoscopic lipid domains determined by microscopy and neutron scattering

CP Collier, D Bolmatov, JG Elkins, J Katsaras - Methods, 2024 - Elsevier
Biological membranes are highly complex supramolecular assemblies, which play central
roles in biology. However, their complexity makes them challenging to study their nanoscale …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic “molecular portraits” of biomembranes drawn by their lateral nanoscale inhomogeneities

RG Efremov - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
To date, it has been reliably shown that the lipid bilayer/water interface can be thoroughly
characterized by a sophisticated so-called “dynamic molecular portrait”. The latter reflects a …