Cell membrane-coated mimics: a methodological approach for fabrication, characterization for therapeutic applications, and challenges for clinical translation

V Chugh, K Vijaya Krishna, A Pandit - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Cell membrane-coated (CMC) mimics are micro/nanosystems that combine an isolated cell
membrane and a template of choice to mimic the functions of a cell. The design exploits its …

Organic Bioelectronics for In Vitro Systems

C Pitsalidis, AM Pappa, AJ Boys, Y Fu… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bioelectronics have made strides in improving clinical diagnostics and precision medicine.
The potential of bioelectronics for bidirectional interfacing with biology through continuous …

Multiscale simulations of biological membranes: the challenge to understand biological phenomena in a living substance

G Enkavi, M Javanainen, W Kulig, T Róg… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Biological membranes are tricky to investigate. They are complex in terms of molecular
composition and structure, functional over a wide range of time scales, and characterized by …

Membrane lipid nanodomains

M Cebecauer, M Amaro, P Jurkiewicz… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Lipid membranes can spontaneously organize their components into domains of different
sizes and properties. The organization of membrane lipids into nanodomains might …

Strongly emitting folic acid-derived carbon nanodots for one-and two-photon imaging of lyotropic myelin figures

D Benkowska-Biernacka, SG Mucha… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Non-invasive imaging of morphological changes in biologically relevant lipidic mesophases
is essential for the understanding of membrane-mediated processes. However, its …

Dynamic plasma membrane organization: a complex symphony

S van Deventer, AB Arp, AB van Spriel - Trends in Cell Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Membrane protein organization is essential for proper cellular functioning and the result of a
dynamic exchange between protein monomers, nanoscale protein clusters, and microscale …

Mimicking the mammalian plasma membrane: An overview of lipid membrane models for biophysical studies

A Luchini, G Vitiello - Biomimetics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cell membranes are very complex biological systems including a large variety of lipids and
proteins. Therefore, they are difficult to extract and directly investigate with biophysical …

Chemodivergent manganese-catalyzed C–H activation: modular synthesis of fluorogenic probes

N Kaplaneris, J Son, L Mendive-Tapia, A Kopp… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bioorthogonal late-stage diversification of amino acids and peptides bears enormous
potential for drug discovery and molecular imaging. Despite major accomplishments, these …

A brief introduction to some aspects of the fluid–mosaic model of cell membrane structure and its importance in membrane lipid replacement

GL Nicolson, G Ferreira de Mattos - Membranes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Early cell membrane models placed most proteins external to lipid bilayers in trimolecular
structures or as modular lipoprotein units. These thermodynamically untenable structures …

Strategies for organelle targeting of fluorescent probes

J Lin, K Yang, EJ New - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescent tools have emerged as an important tool for studying the distinct chemical
microenvironments of organelles, due to their high specificity and ability to be used in non …