This review gives a brief overview of experimental approaches used to assess the bending
rigidity of membranes. Emphasis is placed on techniques based on the use of giant …

Flavonoids are polyphenolic compounds produced by plants and delivered to the human
body through food. Although the epidemiological analyses of large human populations did …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a diverse class of well-studied membrane-permeating
peptides with important functions in innate host defense. In this short review, we provide a …

One of the many aspects of membrane biophysics dealt with in this Faraday Discussion
regards the material moduli that describe energies at a supramolecular level. This …

There is some overlap in the biological activities of cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) and
antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). We compared nine AMPs, seven CPPs, and a fusion peptide …

The interactions between peptides and lipids are of fundamental importance in the
functioning of numerous membrane-mediated cellular processes including antimicrobial …

Fusion peptides comprise conserved hydrophobic domains absolutely required for the
fusogenic activity of glycoproteins from divergent virus families. After 30 years of intensive …

Light can effectively interrogate biological systems in a reversible and physiologically
compatible manner with high spatiotemporal precision. Understanding the biophysics of …

Some of our recent work has resulted in the detailed structures of fully hydrated, fluid phase
phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG) bilayers. These structures were …

The fusion peptide (FP) of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is part of the N-terminus
of the viral envelope glycoprotein gp41 and is believed to play an important role in the viral …