Salicylic acid (SA) is an important plant hormone with a critical role in plant defense against
pathogen infection. Despite extensive research over the past 30 year or so, SA biosynthesis …

Biological membranes are complex organized molecular assemblies of lipids and proteins
that provide cells and membrane-bound intracellular organelles their individual identities by …

To adapt to the diverse array of biotic and abiotic cues, plants have evolved sophisticated
mechanisms to sense changes in environmental conditions and modulate their growth …

Ostreolysin A (OlyA) is an∼ 15-kDa protein that has been shown to bind selectively to
membranes rich in cholesterol and sphingomyelin. In this study, we investigated whether …

Dipole potential is the potential difference within the membrane bilayer, which originates
due to the nonrandom arrangement of lipid dipoles and water molecules at the membrane …

The emergence of intense sources of terahertz radiation based on lasers and electron
accelerators has considerable potential for research on biological systems. This perspective …

Background The long chain N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) quorum sensing signal
molecules released by Pseudomonas aeruginosa have long been known to elicit …

" Alberto Diaspro has been choreographing light's dance for over 20 years, and in
Nanoscopy and Multidimensional Optical Fluorescence Microscopy, he has assembled a …

Membrane rafts are transient and unstable membrane microdomains that are enriched in
sphingolipids, cholesterol, and specific proteins. They are involved in intracellular trafficking …

The specialized plasma membrane microdomains known as lipid rafts are enriched by
sterols and sphingolipids. Lipid rafts facilitate cellular signal transduction by controlling the …