Lipid composition determines membrane properties, and cholesterol plays a major role in
this determination as it regulates membrane fluidity and permeability, as well as induces the …

Without any exaggeration, cholesterol is one of the most important lipid species in eukaryotic
cells. Its effects on cellular membranes and functions range from purely mechanistic to …

Maintaining the high standards that made the previous editions such well-respected and
widely used references, Food Lipids: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology, Fourth Edition …

Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG) are the main lipid
components of the inner bacterial membrane. A computer model for such a membrane was …

As hydration contributions to stability of macromolecular assemblies in aqueous solution,
hydrophobic effects are virtually universally acknowledged. Hydrophobic effects are widely …

Light-triggered drug delivery systems enable site-specific and time-controlled drug release.
In previous work, we have achieved this with liposomes containing gold nanoparticles in the …

With the rapid development of computer power and wide availability of modelling software
computer simulations of realistic models of lipid membranes, including their interactions with …

Two 40ns molecular dynamics simulations of a palmitoyl-oleoyl phosphatidylserine (POPS)
lipid bilayer in the liquid crystalline phase with Na+ counterions and NaCl were carried out …

The structural and dynamical properties of lipid membranes rich in phospholipids and
cholesterol are known to be strongly affected by the unsaturation of lipid acyl chains. We …

The ever-increasing amount of trans fatty acids in the human diet has been linked to a
variety of afflictions, most notably coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis. The …