Recent research has provided an abundance of new information on membrane
biochemistry. Now more than ever, it is essential to update our current understanding of …

Motivation: Many important biological processes such as cell signaling, transport of
membrane-impermeable molecules, cell–cell communication, cell recognition and cell …

Publisher Summary A primary role of lipids in cellular function is in the formation of the
permeability barrier of cells and subcellular organelles in the form of a lipid bilayer. This …

Cholesterol is an essential component of eukaryotic membranes and plays a crucial role in
membrane organization, dynamics and function. The modulatory role of cholesterol in the …

The current best membrane-protein topology-prediction methods are typically based on
sequence statistics and contain hundreds of parameters that are optimized on known …

Chances are that you have come across membrane proteins many times in your
professional life: ion channels, aquaporins, G‐protein‐coupled receptors, drug resistance …

Motivation: Membrane proteins are an important class of biological macromolecules
involved in many cellular key processes including signalling and transport. They account for …

Voltage-dependent ion channels gate open in response to changes in cell membrane
voltage. This form of gating permits the propagation of action potentials. We present two …

Membrane traffic requires the generation of high-curvature lipid-bound transport carriers
represented by tubules and vesicles. The mechanisms through which membranes are …

Dehydrins (DHNs; late embryogenesis abundant D11 family) are a family of intrinsically
unstructured plant proteins that accumulate in the late stages of seed development and in …