Structural Significance of Lipid Diversity as Studied by Small Angle Neutron and X-ray Scattering by Norbert Kučerka, Frederick A. Heberle, Jianjun Pan, John Katsaras

“…From model studies such as these, one is better able to appreciate how a real biological membrane can be tuned by balancing the contributions from the lipid’s different moieties (e.g., acyl chains, headgroups, backbones, etc.).…”
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Optimization of cryo-electron microscopy for quantitative analysis of lipid bilayers by Frederick A. Heberle, Doug Welsch, Haden L. Scott, M. Neal Waxham

“…We recently showed that cryo-EM can be used to measure the bilayer thickness of lipid vesicles and biological membranes with subangstrom precision, resulting in the direct visualization of nanoscopic domains of different thickness in multicomponent lipid mixtures and giant plasma membrane vesicles. …”
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Building Asymmetric Lipid Bilayers for Molecular Dynamics Simulations: What Methods Exist and How to Choose One? by Emily H. Chaisson, Frederick A. Heberle, Milka Doktorova

“…The compositional asymmetry of biological membranes has attracted significant attention over the last decade. …”
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Structure and Interdigitation of Chain-Asymmetric Phosphatidylcholines and Milk Sphingomyelin in the Fluid Phase by Moritz P. K. Frewein, Milka Doktorova, Frederick A. Heberle, Haden L. Scott, Enrico F. Semeraro, Lionel Porcar, Georg Pabst

“…We addressed the frequent occurrence of mixed-chain lipids in biological membranes and their impact on membrane structure by studying several chain-asymmetric phosphatidylcholines and the highly asymmetric milk sphingomyelin. …”
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