… When cholesterol is … planar membrane which increased fusion rates. Differential scanning
calorimetry (DSC) was used to observe how short-chain alcohols shift the melting temperature …

… as membrane fusion, is affected by the membranes’ critical … whose critical temperatures are
around room temperature may … for the lipid membranes of DOPC/DSPC/cholesterol (Chol) at …

… of cholesterol is important in the context of membrane fusion … sample concentration and
low temperature to obtain decent … IR studies of the peptide bound to planar POPC/POPG (4/1 …

… a model involving enhanced adhesion of incoming vesicles on … Examinations were carried
out at temperatures of around −180 … vesicle has a revolution z axis that is normal to the plane. …

… miscible” at the temperature between the higher and lower T c s, … Introducing membrane
fusion sites via microdomains … adhesive vesicles that did not transform into a planar membrane […

… that randomly insert into the planar bilayers, we design on-… only a few cholesterol tags
often suffer from low tendency to … nitrogen and thawing at room temperature, followed by size …

… We probed membrane fusion by conventional assays based on … Figure 7b shows that, at
the temperature used in the … of mass, normal to the membrane plane. The left and right panels …

… cholesterol in the viral membrane may stimulate membrane … , are unable to lower the transition
temperature and induce … hairpin lie near the plane of the membrane, and the hydrophobic …

… thus stabilize the membrane at low temperatures is a widespread … The planar structure of
cholesterol confers special … Considering that membrane fusion events between the sperm and …

… are responsible for membrane fusion at these boundaries, we … In addition, we observed the
effects of several cholesterol … the planar membrane, which would make fusion energetically …