Electrophysiological analysis of interactions between carbohydrates and transmitter receptors reconstituted in lipid bilayers

V Suppiramaniam, T Vaithianathan… - Methods in …, 2006 - Elsevier
… of carbohydrates with synaptic transmitter receptors using isolated … transmitter receptors
in tip‐dip bilayers and the subsequent study of carbohydrate interaction with the receptors

Affinity of four polar neurotransmitters for lipid bilayer membranes

C Wang, F Ye, GF Velardez, GH Peters… - The Journal of Physical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
lipid matrix in the synaptic membrane have been hypothesized to play a role in synaptic
transmission of nerve signals, particularly with respect to receptor … of transmitter molecules when …

A perspective: active role of lipids in neurotransmitter dynamics

PA Postila, T Róg - Molecular Neurobiology, 2020 - Springer
… are destined to bind into receptors with extracellular binding sites… The curved regions
of the lipid bilayer are specifically … transmitters [50], deep membrane penetration, and lipid-like …

Evolutionary aspects of transmitter molecules, their receptors and channels

RJ Walker, L Holden-Dye - Parasitology, 1991 - cambridge.org
… neurotransmitter receptor mechanisms which are amenable to study with the tools available
at the time, for example, high-affinity ligands, tissues with high density of receptor protein, …

Functions of SNAREs in intracellular membrane fusion and lipid bilayer mixing

C Ungermann, D Langosch - Journal of cell science, 2005 - journals.biologists.com
… by a lipid bilayer. Exchange of lipids, metabolites or proteins across the lipid bilayer can …
(N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor) attachment protein receptors]. Fusion seems to involve a …

Influence of lipid bilayer on the structure of the muscle-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

N Unwin - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
… type nicotinic acetylcholine receptor is a transmitter-gated ion … that the lipid bilayer surrounding
the junctional receptor has a … It is now shown that this special lipid environment influences …

Neurotransmitter receptors

MN Waxham - From Molecules to Networks, 2014 - Elsevier
… when transmitter dissociates from the receptor or when the … of the lipid bilayer to form the
domain of the receptor that … The intracellular domain of the receptor forms short exits for ions …

Building a bilayer model of the neuromuscular synapse

DJ Woodbury - Cell biochemistry and biophysics, 1999 - Springer
… This will open the door in determining regulatory and modulatory factors of transmitter
Cartoon showing how the AChR channel can act as an autoreceptor in a planar lipid bilayer. This …

Feeling the hidden mechanical forces in lipid bilayer is an original sense

A Anishkin, SH Loukin, J Teng… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
… In an unexpected context, the canonical transient-receptor-potential channels in the Drosophila
… , external tether, or accessory channel subunits as force transmitters (18, 19). Because …

[HTML][HTML] Calcium and protons affect the interaction of neurotransmitters and anesthetics with anionic lipid membranes

R Pérez-Isidoro, JC Ruiz-Suárez - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2016 - Elsevier
… The authors claim that if the receptor is buried in the lipid bilayer, the interaction is
membrane-dependent where anionic lipids and ions are crucial. Interestingly, acetylcholine follows …