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 …

Phospholipid membranes as chemically and functionally tunable materials

D Huster, S Maiti, A Herrmann - Advanced Materials, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The sheet‐like lipid bilayer is the fundamental structural component of all cell membranes.
Its building blocks are phospholipids and cholesterol. Their amphiphilic structure …

ATP13A2 deficiency disrupts lysosomal polyamine export

S van Veen, S Martin, C Van den Haute, V Benoy… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Abstract ATP13A2 (PARK9) is a late endolysosomal transporter that is genetically implicated
in a spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders, including Kufor-Rakeb syndrome—a …

Lipid polymorphisms and membrane shape

VA Frolov, AV Shnyrova… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2011‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Morphological plasticity of biological membrane is critical for cellular life, as cells need to
quickly rearrange their membranes. Yet, these rearrangements are constrained in two ways …

Pre-and post-Golgi translocation of glucosylceramide in glycosphingolipid synthesis

D Halter, S Neumann, SM van Dijk… - The Journal of cell …, 2007‏ - rupress.org
Glycosphingolipids are controlled by the spatial organization of their metabolism and by
transport specificity. Using immunoelectron microscopy, we localize to the Golgi stack the …

[HTML][HTML] How lipid flippases can modulate membrane structure

PF Devaux, A Herrmann, N Ohlwein… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Phospholipid flippases, are proteins able to translocate phospholipids from one side of a
membrane to the other even against a gradient of concentration and thereby able to …

Membrane protein reconstitution into giant unilamellar vesicles: a review on current techniques

IL Jørgensen, GC Kemmer, TG Pomorski - European Biophysics Journal, 2017‏ - Springer
Studying membrane proteins at the molecular level represents a major challenge in
biochemistry due to the complexity of the membrane in which they are embedded. As an …

Shape dynamics, lipid hydrodynamics, and the complex viscoelasticity of bilayer membranes

M Rahimi, M Arroyo - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2012‏ - APS
Biological membranes are continuously brought out of equilibrium, as they shape
organelles, package and transport cargo, or respond to external actions. Even the dynamics …

Unveiling the active nature of living-membrane fluctuations and mechanics

H Turlier, T Betz - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
Soft-condensed matter physics has provided, in the past decades, many of the relevant
concepts and methods allowing successful description of living cells and biological tissues …

[HTML][HTML] Giant unilamellar vesicles containing phosphatidylinositol (4, 5) bisphosphate: characterization and functionality

K Carvalho, L Ramos, C Roy, C Picart - Biophysical journal, 2008‏ - cell.com
Biomimetic systems such as giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are increasingly used for
studying protein/lipid interactions due to their size (similar to that of cells) and to their ease of …