Scientists have long wanted to get a closer look at the movement of lipids around a cell, but because organelles are so close ...

Lipids are fatty molecules that play critical roles in cell function, including membrane structure, energy storage and ...

Membrane proteins spend their time surrounded by lipids. For a long time, researchers thought those lipids didn’t really matter, that they were just a backdrop for the real players, an annoyance to be ...

Two integral glycoproteins from the human erythrocyte have been studied after their incorporation into lipid bilayer systems. Glycophorin (which is the M/N blood group determinant) and the ...

Cell membranes are formed by lipid bilayers and membrane proteins. The proteins carry out key biological functions, including transport of ions and other hydrophilic solutes across membranes. Tuning ...

The authors describe an interesting approach to studying the dynamics and function of membrane proteins in different lipid environments. The important findings have theoretical and practical ...

Assembly and budding of a virus from a membrane microdomain. Viruses have an outer protein shell called a capsid which surrounds the viral nucleic acid. Enveloped viruses, such as HIV, have an ...

The ways in which cells function are strongly dependent on cell membranes which enclose cellular compartments and separate the interiors of cells from the extracellular domain. Oxidative stress harms ...

Lipids and membrane proteins existing in cell membranes, which locates at the outermost layer of cells, are responsible for recognizing extracellular environments and transferring that information ...

Research conducted by Toyohashi University of Technology in collaboration with Tohoku University elucidated the fusion process of proteoliposomes with an artificial lipid bilayer and the mechanism ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to visualize the structure and dynamics of a membrane microdomain in yeast cells. They aimed to understand ...