Biological membranes play an essential role in living organisms by providing stable and
functional compartments, preserving cell architecture, whilst supporting signalling and …

In tissue engineering, it is imperative to control the behaviour of cells/stem cells, such as
adhesion, proliferation, propagation, motility, and differentiation for tissue regeneration …

The lipopeptide daptomycin is used as an antibiotic to treat severe infections with gram-
positive pathogens, such as methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and drug …

Gram-negative bacteria inhabit a broad range of ecological niches. For Escherichia coli, this
includes river water as well as humans and animals, where it can be both a commensal and …

The clustering of proteins and lipids in distinct microdomains is emerging as an important
principle for the spatial patterning of biological membranes. Such domain formation can be …

Tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic (TRAP) transporters are found widely in bacteria
and archaea and consist of three structural domains, a soluble substrate-binding protein (P …

Most bacteria accomplish cell division with the help of a dynamic protein complex called the
divisome, which spans the cell envelope in the plane of division. Assembly and activation of …

In recent years, there have been major advances in the development of novel nanoparticle-
and microparticle-based therapeutics. An emerging paradigm is the incorporation of …

Background Mimicking cell membranes by simple models based on the reconstitution of
membrane proteins in lipid bilayers represents a straightforward approach to understand …

Supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) have contributed invaluable information about the
physiochemical properties of cell membranes, but their compositional simplicity often limits …