Cracking open bacterial membrane vesicles

T Nagakubo, N Nomura, M Toyofuku - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Membrane vesicles (MVs) are nanoparticles composed of lipid membranes that are
produced by both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. MVs have been assigned …

Lipid rafts and neurodegeneration: structural and functional roles in physiologic aging and neurodegenerative diseases: Thematic review series: Biology of lipid rafts

S Grassi, P Giussani, L Mauri, S Prioni, S Sonnino… - Journal of Lipid …, 2020 - ASBMB
Lipid rafts are small, dynamic membrane areas characterized by the clustering of selected
membrane lipids as the result of the spontaneous separation of glycolipids, sphingolipids …

Lipid hijacking: a unifying theme in vector-borne diseases

AJ O'Neal, LR Butler, A Rolandelli, SD Gilk, JHF Pedra - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Vector-borne illnesses comprise a significant portion of human maladies, representing 17%
of global infections. Transmission of vector-borne pathogens to mammals primarily occurs …

Bacterial lipid biophysics and membrane organization

LMY Mitchison-Field, BJ Belin - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
The formation of lateral microdomains is emerging as a central organizing principle in
bacterial membranes. These microdomains are targets of antibiotic development and have …

Cholesterol contributes to risk, severity, and machine learning-driven diagnosis of Lyme disease

IS Forrest, AJ O'Neal, JHF Pedra… - Clinical Infectious …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Lyme disease is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in the US, yet its host
factors are poorly understood and diagnostic tests are limited. We evaluated patients in a …

Advantages of the classical thermodynamic analysis of single—and multi-component Langmuir monolayers from molecules of biomedical importance—theory and …

P Dynarowicz-Latka, A Wnętrzak… - Journal of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Langmuir monolayer technique has been successfully used for decades to model
biological membranes and processes occurring at their interfaces. Classically, this method …

Spatiotemporal Gene Expression by a Genetic Circuit for Chemical Production in Escherichia coli

B Zhang, H Yang, Z Wu, J Pan, S Li, L Chen… - ACS Synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Gene expression in spatiotemporal distribution improves the ability of cells to respond to
changing environments. For microbial cell factories in artificial environments, reconstruction …

Biophysical studies of lipid nanodomains using different physical characterization techniques

JJ Kinnun, HL Scott, D Bolmatov, CP Collier… - Biophysical …, 2023 - cell.com
For the past 50 years, evidence for the existence of functional lipid domains has been
steadily accumulating. Although the notion of functional lipid domains, also known as" lipid …

Rafting on the evidence for lipid raft-like domains as hubs triggering environmental toxicants' cellular effects

D Marques-da-Silva, R Lagoa - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The plasma membrane lipid rafts are cholesterol-and sphingolipid-enriched domains that
allow regularly distributed, sub-micro-sized structures englobing proteins to …

Mycolic acid-containing bacteria trigger distinct types of membrane vesicles through different routes

T Nagakubo, YO Tahara, M Miyata, N Nomura… - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Bacterial membrane vesicles (MVs) are attracting considerable attention in diverse fields of
life science and biotechnology due to their potential for various applications. Although there …