It is well-known that aqueous dispersions of phospholipids spontaneously assemble into
bilayer structures. These structures have numerous applications across chemistry and …

Since its inception more than thirty years ago, electroformation has become the most
commonly used method for growing giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). Although the method …

Surfactant protein C (SP-C) is an important player in enhancing the interfacial adsorption of
lung surfactant lipid films to the alveolar air-liquid interface. Doing so, surface tension drops …

The paradigm that cataracts are irreversible and that vision from cataracts can only be
restored through surgery has recently been challenged by reports that oxysterols such as …

The ocular lens is a unique tissue that contains an age gradient of cells and proteins ranging
from newly differentiated cells containing newly synthesized proteins to cells and proteins …

Cholesterol (Chol) content in most cellular membranes does not exceed 50 mol%, only in
the eye lens's fiber cell plasma membrane, its content surpasses 50 mol%. At this high …

α-crystallin is a major protein found in the mammalian eye lens that works as a molecular
chaperone by preventing the aggregation of proteins and providing tolerance to stress in the …

Artificial vesicles are important tools in membrane research because they enable studying
membrane properties in controlled conditions. Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are …

Though phospholipids possess chiral centers, their chiral aggregation within bilayer cell
membranes has seldom been referred and recognized. Insight into the chirality at higher …

In the eye lens cell membrane, the lipid composition changes during the aging process: the
proportion of sphingomyelins (SM) increases, that of phosphatidylcholines decreases. To …