Shiga Toxin-Producing <i>Escherichia coli</i> and Milk Fat Globules by Arthur Bagel, Delphine Sergentet

“…MFGs are surrounded by a biological membrane, the milk fat globule membrane (MFGM), which has a globally positive health effect, including inhibition of pathogen adhesion. …”
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The Equilibria in Lipid–Lipoic Acid Systems: Monolayers, Microelectrophoretic and Interfacial Tension Studies by Paulina Laszuk, Wiesław Urbaniak, Aneta D. Petelska

“…In this examination, we investigated the effect of lipoic acid (LA) on the properties of biological membrane models (monolayers, bilayers, and liposomes) formed from phosphatidylcholine (PC) or phosphatidylserine (PS) using the Langmuir, microelectrophoresis, and interfacial tension methods. …”
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SNARE Modulators and SNARE Mimetic Peptides by Mikhail Khvotchev, Mikhail Soloviev

“…The ability of the relatively short SNARE motif to assemble spontaneously into stable coiled coil tetrahelical bundles has inspired the development of reduced SNARE-mimetic systems that use peptides for biological membrane fusion and for making large supramolecular protein complexes. …”
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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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Reconstitution of Membrane Proteins into Model Membranes: Seeking Better Ways to Retain Protein Activities by Trevor Lithgow, Lisa Martin, Hsin-Hui Shen

“…The function of any given biological membrane is determined largely by the specific set of integral membrane proteins embedded in it, and the peripheral membrane proteins attached to the membrane surface. …”
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Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes with Antibiotics and Antibacterial Agents as Drug-Delivery Systems—A Pharmaceutical Perspective by Dariusz Boczar, Katarzyna Michalska

“…The review focuses on drug-delivery applications such as improving solubility, modifying the drug-release profile, slowing down the degradation of the drug, improving biological membrane permeability, and enhancing antimicrobial activity. …”
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Small Residues Inhibit Homo-Dimerization of the Human Carbonic Anhydrase XII Transmembrane Domain by Florian Cymer, Dirk Schneider

“…Using the GALLEX assay, we show here that the transmembrane domain indeed forms a strong transmembrane helix oligomer within a biological membrane. However, single or multiple mutations of small residue(s) to isoleucine almost always increased, rather than decreased, the interaction propensities. …”
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Dynamic interactions between a membrane binding protein and lipids induce fluctuating diffusivity by Yamamoto, E, Akimoto, T, Kalli, A, Yasuoka, K, Sansom, M

“…Our results provide evidence that the complexity of protein-lipid interactions plays a crucial role in the diffusion of proteins on biological membrane surfaces. Changes in the diffusivity of PH domains and related membrane-bound proteins may in turn contribute to the formation/dissolution of protein complexes in membranes.…”

Subunit stoichiometry of staphylococcal alpha-hemolysin in crystals and on membranes: a heptameric transmembrane pore. by Gouaux, J, Braha, O, Hobaugh, MR, Song, L, Cheley, S, Shustak, C, Bayley, J

“…These data establish the heptameric oligomerization state of the alpha HL transmembrane pore both in three-dimensional crystals and on a biological membrane.…”

Lipidbook: a public repository for force-field parameters used in membrane simulations. by Domański, J, Stansfeld, P, Sansom, MS, Beckstein, O

“…Lipidbook is a public database for force-field parameters with a special emphasis on lipids, detergents and similar molecules that are of interest when simulating biological membrane systems. It stores parameter files that are supplied by the community. …”

Winery Wastewater Treatment Technologies: Current Trends and Future Perspective by Václav Miklas, Michal Touš, Marta Miklasová, Vítezslav Máša, David Hornák

“…The technologies are categorized into physicochemical, biological, membrane, advanced oxidation and combined processes. …”
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Application of polymersomes in membrane protein study and drug discovery: Progress, strategies, and perspectives by Chih Hung Lo, Jialiu Zeng

“…However, working with MPs is difficult given that their amphiphilic nature requires protection from biological membrane or membrane mimetics. Polymersomes are bilayered nano‐vesicles made of self‐assembled block copolymers that have been widely used as cell membrane mimetics for MP reconstitution and in engineering of artificial cells. …”
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NON-UNIFORMITY OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICAL TRANSMEMBRANE POTENTIALS IN CARDIAC DEFIBRILLATION by O. E. Gudkova, A. P. Kozlov

“…Two heteropolar pulses cause an effect of biological membrane electroporation with a greater probability than two unipolar ones.…”
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Effects of Low Concentrations of Docosahexaenoic Acid on the Structure and Phase Behavior of Model Lipid Membranes by Chai Lor, Linda S. Hirst

“…The surprising effect of such low DHA-PE concentrations on membrane structure may be important in understanding the role of highly polyunsaturated lipids in biological membrane-based structures and similar artificial surfactant systems.…”
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Functional Roles of the Conserved Amino Acid Sequence Motif C, the Antiporter Motif, in Membrane Transporters of the Major Facilitator Superfamily by Manuel F. Varela, Anely Ortiz-Alegria, Manjusha Lekshmi, Jerusha Stephen, Sanath Kumar

“…The biological membrane surrounding all living cells forms a hydrophobic barrier to the passage of biologically important molecules. …”
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Non-Monotonic Complexity of Stochastic Model of the Channel Gating Dynamics by Lukasz Machura, Agata Wawrzkiewicz-Jałowiecka, Monika Richter-Laskowska, Paulina Trybek

“…The simple model of an ionic current flowing through a single channel in a biological membrane is used to depict the complexity of the corresponding empirical data underlying different internal constraints and thermal fluctuations. …”
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Spontaneous Formation and Fusion of Raspberry Vesicle Self-Assembled from Star Block Terpolymers in Aqueous Solution by Yingying Guo, Shuyan Yang

“…Our results provide guidance on understanding the dynamic processes of complex vesicles and biological membrane fusion.…”
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Nuclear quantum effects in H(+) and OH(-) diffusion along confined water wires by Rossi, M, Ceriotti, M, Manolopoulos, D

“…The diffusion of protons and hydroxide ions along water wires provides an efficient mechanism for charge transport that is exploited by biological membrane channels and shows promise for technological applications such as fuel cells. …”

Liquid-vapor oscillations of water in hydrophobic nanopores. by Beckstein, O, Sansom, MS

“…Water plays a key role in biological membrane transport. In ion channels and water-conducting pores (aquaporins), one-dimensional confinement in conjunction with strong surface effects changes the physical behavior of water. …”

Self-assembly in mechanical systems by Kwiecinski, J

“…<p>Inspired by biological membrane shaping in the cell through means of curvature-inducing proteins, we investigate the interplay between membrane curvature and the distribution and movement of shape-inducing objects which are free to move as a consequence of the underlying shape. …”