Cellular membranes function as permeability barriers that separate cells from the external
environment or partition cells into distinct compartments. These membranes are lipid …

Noncanonical functions of the autophagy machinery in pathways including LC3-associated
phagocytosis and LC3-associated endocytosis have garnered increasing interest in both …

Eukaryotic cells can undergo different forms of programmed cell death, many of which
culminate in plasma membrane rupture as the defining terminal event,,,,,–. Plasma …

Ferroptosis is a type of regulated necrosis caused by unrestricted lipid peroxidation and
subsequent plasma membrane rupture. However, the lipid remodeling mechanism that …

Ischemic stroke caused by arterial occlusion is the most common type of stroke, which is
among the most frequent causes of disability and death worldwide. Current treatment …

The life of eukaryotic cells requires the transport of lipids between membranes, which are
separated by the aqueous environment of the cytosol. Vesicle-mediated traffic along the …

Cancer growth represents a dysregulated imbalance between cell gain and cell loss, where
the rate of proliferating mutant tumour cells exceeds the rate of those that die. Apoptosis, the …

Phagocytosis is a cellular process for ingesting and eliminating particles larger than 0.5 μm
in diameter, including microorganisms, foreign substances, and apoptotic cells …

18.1. 1 Extracellular Vesicles The direct contact between two or more cells and the
interaction between the ligand and the receptor have been considered, for a long time, the …

Activation of scramblases is one of the mechanisms that regulates the exposure of
phosphatidylserine to the cell surface, a process that plays an important role in tumour …