Do sterols reduce proton and sodium leaks through lipid bilayers?

TH Haines - Progress in lipid research, 2001 - Elsevier
Proton and/or sodium electrochemical gradients are critical to energy handling at the plasma
membranes of all living cells. Sodium gradients are used for animal plasma membranes, all …

The use of differential scanning calorimetry and differential thermal analysis in studies of model and biological membranes

RN McElhaney - Chemistry and physics of lipids, 1982 - Elsevier
Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and to a lesser extent differential thermal analysis
(DTA), are powerful yet relatively rapid and inexpensive thermodynamic techniques for …

[HTML][HTML] Fluid phase lipid areas and bilayer thicknesses of commonly used phosphatidylcholines as a function of temperature

N Kučerka, MP Nieh, J Katsaras - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2011 - Elsevier
The structural parameters of fluid phase bilayers composed of phosphatidylcholines with
fully saturated, mixed, and branched fatty acid chains, at several temperatures, have been …

[图书][B] The structure of biological membranes

PL Yeagle - 2004 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

Controlled packing and single-droplet resolution of 3D-printed functional synthetic tissues

A Alcinesio, OJ Meacock, RG Allan, C Monico… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract 3D-printing networks of droplets connected by interface bilayers are a powerful
platform to build synthetic tissues in which functionality relies on precisely ordered …

[PDF][PDF] Line tensions, correlation lengths, and critical exponents in lipid membranes near critical points

AR Honerkamp-Smith, P Cicuta, MD Collins… - Biophysical journal, 2008 - cell.com
Membranes containing a wide variety of ternary mixtures of high chain-melting temperature
lipids, low chain-melting temperature lipids, and cholesterol undergo lateral phase …

Protein reconstitution into freestanding planar lipid membranes for electrophysiological characterization

T Gutsmann, T Heimburg, U Keyser, KR Mahendran… - Nature protocols, 2015 - nature.com
The reconstitution of channel-forming proteins into planar lipid bilayers enables their
functional characterization at very low (sometimes below attomolar) concentrations. We …

[PDF][PDF] X-ray diffraction study of lipid bilayer membranes interacting with amphiphilic helical peptides: diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine with alamethicin at low …

Y Wu, K He, SJ Ludtke, HW Huang - Biophysical journal, 1995 - cell.com
A variety of amphiphilic helical peptides have been shown to exhibit a transition from
adsorbing parallel to a membrane surface at low concentrations to inserting perpendicularly …

Ionic conductance of synthetic channels: analysis, lessons, and recommendations

JKW Chui, TM Fyles - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Synthetic ion channels have been known for nearly three decades, but it is only in the past
decade that analysis of the currents these ionic conductors carry has become a standard …

Analysis of single nucleic acid molecules with protein nanopores

G Maglia, AJ Heron, D Stoddart, D Japrung… - Methods in …, 2010 - Elsevier
We describe the methods used in our laboratory for the analysis of single nucleic acid
molecules with protein nanopores. The technical section is preceded by a review of the …