Membrane lateral heterogeneity is accepted as a requirement for the function of biological
membranes and the notion of lipid rafts gives specificity to this broad concept. However, the …

Abstract Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) is a highly sensitive technique to study the
thermotropic properties of many different biological macromolecules and extracts. Since its …

The effect of cholesterol (CHOL) content on the permeability and fluidity of
dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) liposome membrane was investigated. Liposomes …

We present an improved and extended version of our coarse grained lipid model. The new
version, coined the MARTINI force field, is parametrized in a systematic way, based on the …

Maintaining the high standards that made the previous editions such well-respected and
widely used references, Food Lipids: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology, Fourth Edition …

Supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) are cell-membrane-mimicking platforms that can be formed
on solid surfaces and integrated with a wide range of surface-sensitive measurement …

Sphingomyelin (SM) is a dominant sphingolipid in membranes of mammalian cells and this
lipid class is specifically enriched in the plasma membrane, the endocytic recycling …

Conspectus Defining the two-dimensional structure of cell membranes represents one of the
most daunting challenges currently facing chemists, biochemists, and biophysicists. In …

Liposome, a promising delivery system with phospholipid bilayer, could improve the water
solubility of curcumin, which is a polyphenolic natural product with many bioactivities …

Two different methods for measuring the bending stiffness of lipid membranes are used and
further developed: fluctuation analysis and vesicle electrodeformation. For this purpose, fast …