[HTML][HTML] Seeing spots: complex phase behavior in simple membranes

SL Veatch, SL Keller - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2005 - Elsevier
Liquid domains in model lipid bilayers are frequently studied as models of raft domains in
cell plasma membranes. Micron-scale liquid domains are easily produced in vesicles …

Crowding effects on diffusion in solutions and cells

JA Dix, AS Verkman - Annu. Rev. Biophys., 2008 - annualreviews.org
We review the effects of molecular crowding on solute diffusion in solution and in cellular
aqueous compartments and membranes. Anomalous diffusion, in which mean squared …

Phospholipids undergo hop diffusion in compartmentalized cell membrane

T Fujiwara, K Ritchie, H Murakoshi… - The Journal of cell …, 2002 - rupress.org
The diffusion rate of lipids in the cell membrane is reduced by a factor of 5–100 from that in
artificial bilayers. This slowing mechanism has puzzled cell biologists for the last 25 yr. Here …

Quantitative comparison of algorithms for tracking single fluorescent particles

MK Cheezum, WF Walker, WH Guilford - Biophysical journal, 2001 - cell.com
Single particle tracking has seen numerous applications in biophysics, ranging from the
diffusion of proteins in cell membranes to the movement of molecular motors. A plethora of …

Dynamic organizing principles of the plasma membrane that regulate signal transduction: commemorating the fortieth anniversary of Singer and Nicolson's fluid …

A Kusumi, TK Fujiwara, R Chadda, M **e… - Annual review of cell …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The recent rapid accumulation of knowledge on the dynamics and structure of the plasma
membrane has prompted major modifications of the textbook fluid-mosaic model. However …

[BOK][B] Thermal biophysics of membranes

T Heimburg - 2008 - books.google.com
An overview of recent experimental and theoretical developments in the field of the physics
of membranes, including new insights from the past decade. The author uses classical …

[BOK][B] Life-as a matter of fat

OG Mouritsen - 2005 - Springer
The first English edition of the present book was published in 2005 and although still in use
around the world the text could be much improved by a timely update on several counts …

Molecular mechanism of autophagic membrane-scaffold assembly and disassembly

A Kaufmann, V Beier, HG Franquelim, T Wollert - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Autophagy is a catabolic pathway that sequesters undesired cellular material into
autophagosomes for delivery to lysosomes for degradation. A key step in the pathway is the …

Ultrafine membrane compartments for molecular diffusion as revealed by single molecule techniques

K Murase, T Fujiwara, Y Umemura, K Suzuki, R Iino… - Biophysical journal, 2004 - cell.com
Plasma membrane compartments, delimited by transmembrane proteins anchored to the
membrane skeleton (anchored-protein picket model), would provide the membrane with …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation of temperature-induced phase transitions in DOPC and DPPC phospholipid bilayers using temperature-controlled scanning force microscopy

ZV Leonenko, E Finot, H Ma, TES Dahms, DT Cramb - Biophysical journal, 2004 - cell.com
Under physiological conditions, multicomponent biological membranes undergo structural
changes which help define how the membrane functions. An understanding of …