Membrane lipids: where they are and how they behave

G Van Meer, DR Voelker, GW Feigenson - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2008 - nature.com
Throughout the biological world, a 30 Å hydrophobic film typically delimits the environments
that serve as the margin between life and death for individual cells. Biochemical and …

Coming together to define membrane contact sites

L Scorrano, MA De Matteis, S Emr, F Giordano… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Close proximities between organelles have been described for decades. However, only
recently a specific field dealing with organelle communication at membrane contact sites …

Phospholipid synthesis and transport in mammalian cells

JE Vance - Traffic, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Membranes of mammalian subcellular organelles contain defined amounts of specific
phospholipids that are required for normal functioning of proteins in the membrane. Despite …

[HTML][HTML] Gram-positive bacterial cell envelopes: The impact on the activity of antimicrobial peptides

N Malanovic, K Lohner - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2016 - Elsevier
A number of cationic antimicrobial peptides, effectors of innate immunity, are supposed to
act at the cytoplasmic membrane leading to permeabilization and eventually membrane …

Sealing plant surfaces: cuticular wax formation by epidermal cells

L Samuels, L Kunst, R Jetter - Annu. Rev. Plant Biol., 2008 - annualreviews.org
The vital importance of plant surface wax in protecting tissue from environmental stresses is
reflected in the huge commitment of epidermal cells to cuticle formation. During cuticle …

Neuronal lipid metabolism: multiple pathways driving functional outcomes in health and disease

TJ Tracey, FJ Steyn, EJ Wolvetang… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Lipids are a fundamental class of organic molecules implicated in a wide range of biological
processes related to their structural diversity, and based on this can be broadly classified …

MAM (mitochondria-associated membranes) in mammalian cells: lipids and beyond

JE Vance - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular and …, 2014 - Elsevier
One mechanism by which communication between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and
mitochondria is achieved is by close juxtaposition between these organelles via …

A tether is a tether is a tether: tethering at membrane contact sites

M Eisenberg-Bord, N Shai, M Schuldiner, M Bohnert - Developmental cell, 2016 - cell.com
Membrane contact sites enable interorganelle communication by positioning organelles in
close proximity using molecular" tethers." With a growing understanding of the importance of …

ER-to-plasma membrane tethering proteins regulate cell signaling and ER morphology

AG Manford, CJ Stefan, HL Yuan, JA MacGurn… - Developmental cell, 2012 - cell.com
Endoplasmic reticulum-plasma membrane (ER-PM) junctions are conserved structures
defined as regions of the ER that tightly associate with the plasma membrane. However, little …

Ca2+ store depletion causes STIM1 to accumulate in ER regions closely associated with the plasma membrane

MM Wu, JA Buchanan, RM Luik, RS Lewis - The Journal of cell biology, 2006 - rupress.org
Stromal interacting molecule 1 (STIM1), reported to be an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca2+
sensor controlling store-operated Ca2+ entry, redistributes from a diffuse ER localization into …