Lipofuscin granules (LGs) are accumulated in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells.
The progressive LG accumulation can somehow lead to pathology and accelerate the aging …

Abstract Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the first cause of social blindness in
people aged over 65 leading to atrophy of retinal pigment epithelial cells (RPE) …

The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), which ensures the normal functioning of the neural
retina, is a pigmented single-cell layer that separates the retina from the Bruch's membrane …

Accumulation of lipofuscin bisretinoids (LBs) in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is the
alleged cause of retinal degeneration in genetic blinding diseases (eg, Stargardt) and a …

Influenza A virus matrix protein M1 plays an essential role in the virus lifecycle, but its
functional and structural properties are not entirely defined. Here we employed small-angle …

Influenza virus is taken up from a pH-neutral extracellular milieu into an endosome, whose
contents then acidify, causing changes in the viral matrix protein (M1) that coats the inner …

Photosensitizers are widely used as photodynamic therapeutic agents killing cancer cells by
photooxidation of their components. Development of new effective photosensitive molecules …

Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is an enveloped paramyxovirus. The matrix protein of the
virus (M-NDV) has an innate propensity to produce virus-like particles budding from the …

We investigate the phase transition stages for detergent-mediated liposome solubilization of
bio-mimetic membranes with the motivation of integrating membrane-bound Photosystem I …

The eye uses vitamin A as a cofactor to sense light and, during this process, some vitamin A
molecules dimerize, forming vitamin A dimers. A striking chemical signature of retinas …