Biological membranes are tricky to investigate. They are complex in terms of molecular
composition and structure, functional over a wide range of time scales, and characterized by …

Understanding interactions between nanoparticles (NPs) with biological matter, particularly
cells, is becoming increasingly important due to their growing application in medicine and …

Glycolipids (such as glycoglycerolipids, glycosphingolipids, and
glycosylphosphatidylinositol) and lipoglycans (such as lipopolysaccharides (LPS) …

The fluid mosaic model of Singer and Nicolson (1972) is a commonly used representation of
the cell membrane structure and dynamics. However a number of features, the result of four …

Ceramides are involved in a variety of cellular processes and in disease. Their biological
functions are thought to depend on ceramides' unique biophysical properties, which …

We use fluorescence microscopy to directly observe liquid phases in giant unilamellar
vesicles. We find that a long list of ternary mixtures of high melting temperature (saturated) …

▪ Abstract Views of how cell membranes are organized are presently changing. The lipid
bilayer that constitutes these membranes is no longer understood to be a homogeneous …

Liquid domains in model lipid bilayers are frequently studied as models of raft domains in
cell plasma membranes. Micron-scale liquid domains are easily produced in vesicles …

Lipid rafts are nanoscopic assemblies of sphingolipids, cholesterol, and specific membrane
proteins that contribute to lateral heterogeneity in eukaryotic membranes. Separation of …

Cholesterol and sphingomyelin form together a highly ordered membrane phase, which is
believed to play important biological functions in plasma membranes of mammalian cells …