LIPID TRANSMEMBRANE DISTRIBUTION Methods used to determine lipid asymmetry
None of the methods utilized is' perfect'. Each one has its own drawbacks and advantages …

Liposomes are being increasingly utilized to deliver drugs, enzymes, antisense
oligonucleotides, and genes to various therapeutic targets. Liposome-mediated delivery of …

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 …

Dick Hoekstra,* Tiny de Boer, Karin Klappe, and Jan Wilschut abstract: An assay is
presented that allows continuous and sensitive monitoring of membrane fusion in both …

We have previously investigated the interaction of macrophages with red blood cells (RBC)
displaying phosphatidylserine (PS) in their surface membranes after the transfer of the …

Lipids that are covalently labeled with the 7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1, 3-diazol-4-yl (NBD) group
are widely used as fluorescent analogues of native lipids in model and biological …

Here we report the development of a new cationic liposome–hyaluronic acid (HA) hybrid
nanoparticle (NP) system and present our characterization of these NPs as an intranasal …

Membrane fusion is essential for cell survival and has attracted a great deal of both
theoretical and experimental interest. Fluorescence (de) quenching measurements were …

Diluents containing sonicated liposomes of purified phosphatidylserine (PS),
phosphatidylcholine (PC) with varying fatty acyl chain lengths and double bonds and …

The contact between two bilayer membranes results in their monolayer fusion comprising
the formation of a trilaminar structure (a single bilayer connected to two bilayers over the …