Lipid vesicles can provide a cost-effective enhancement of skin drug absorption when
vesicle production process is optimised. It is an important challenge to design the ideal …

Membrane microdomains (rafts) remain one of the controversial issues in biophysics.
Fluorescent molecular probes, which make these lipid nanostructures visible through optical …

Cells and organelles are delimited by lipid bilayers in which high deformability is essential to
many cell processes, including motility, endocytosis and cell division. Membrane tension is …

β-Barrel outer membrane proteins (OMPs) represent the major proteinaceous component of
the outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria. These proteins perform key roles in …

Regulation of plasma membrane curvature and composition governs essential cellular
processes. The material property of bending rigidity describes the energetic cost 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 …

We review the main trends in the development of fluorescence probes to obtain information
about the structure, dynamics, and interactions in biomembranes. These probes are efficient …

Imaging lipid organization in cell membranes requires advanced fluorescent probes. Here,
we show that a recently synthesized push-pull pyrene (PA), similarly to popular probe …

Mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae defective in the late steps of ergosterol biosynthesis
are viable but accumulate structurally altered sterols within the plasma membrane. Despite …

HydroFlippers are introduced as the first fluorescent membrane tension probes that report
simultaneously on membrane compression and hydration. The probe design is centered …