Carotenoids promote lateral packing and condensation of lipid membranes

B Mostofian, QR Johnson, JC Smith… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Cholesterol, the major component of mammalian cell … were performed on planar bilayer
membrane models of POPC … a similar effect on membranes at low temperature is beyond the …

[HTML][HTML] … -derived microvesicles exhibit tumor tropism dependent on CCL2/CCR2 signaling axis and promote drug delivery via SNARE-mediated membrane fusion

L Guo, Y Zhang, R Wei, X Zhang, C Wang, M Feng - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… cells localizing on the membranes at room temperature in the laminar … high levels of cholesterol
and low levels of phospholipids, … mouse in the coronal plane. Arrows indicate metastatic …

Out-of-plane deformability and its coupling with electrostatics in biomembranes

N Wilke, DS Alvares - Emerging topics in life sciences, 2023 - portlandpress.com
… , neighbor lipids (membrane composition), temperature, and … an enhanced attraction at close
membrane separations to an … cholesterol between the leaves (equal chemical potentials of …

[HTML][HTML] Flip-flop asymmetry of cholesterol in model membranes induced by thermal gradients

JW Carter, MA Gonzalez, NJ Brooks, JM Seddon… - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
membrane at a temperature of 300 K and a pressure of 1 bar. This … The rigid, planar structure
of cholesterol causes adjacent lipid … This further enhances the difference in lipid chain order …

Bilayer-coated nanoparticles reveal how influenza viral entry depends on membrane deformability but not curvature

AM Villamil Giraldo, PM Kasson - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… viral membrane fusion mechanics, where the membrane steps … to study fusion typically employ
a planar bilayer or viral fusion to … the fusion kinetics at different temperatures. The feasible …

Membrane lipids couple synaptotagmin to SNARE-mediated granule fusion in insulin-secreting cells

C Amos, V Kiessling, AJB Kreutzberger… - Molecular Biology of …, 2024 - Am Soc Cell Biol
… Because MβCD is commonly used to deplete cholesterol, we … +-dependent regulation of
insulin vesicle fusion requires a target … of the planar supported membrane. A concentration of 0.1 …

The distributions of cholesterol iso-octyl chain conformers in different phospholipid membranes probed by fingerprint Raman spectra interpreted by density functional …

JH Hafner, KR Birkenfeld, TN Gandhi, CM Pacheco… - Biophysical …, 2024 - cell.com
… These lowtemperature HYSCORE experiments are complemented by continuous … cholesterol
conformer distributions had an increased fraction of chains bent perpendicular to the plane

[HTML][HTML] Stable nanovesicles formed by intrinsically planar bilayers

M Köber, S Illa-Tuset, L Ferrer-Tasies… - Journal of colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
… a vesicle with an initial radius of 20 nm and 1:1 cholesterol / … a volumetric expanded organic
solution of cholesterol (a co-… room temperature with an ELSD nebulization temperature of …

[HTML][HTML] Free energies of membrane stalk formation from a lipidomics perspective

CS Poojari, KC Scherer, JS Hub - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
… of membrane fusion has not been systematically addressed. … 2B, and k B and T are the
Boltzmann constant and temperature, … the planar cholesterol molecule disfavors the increased tail …

Role of PI (4, 5) P2 and Cholesterol in Unconventional Protein Secretion

A Joliot - Cholesterol and PI (4, 5) P2 in Vital Biological …, 2023 - Springer
… complexes that govern membrane fusion and scission events… The persistence of homeodomain
internalisation at low temperature … (b) Interaction of EN2 with artificial planar lipid bilayers …