Scientists have long wanted to get a closer look at the movement of lipids around a cell, but because organelles are so close ...

Two integral glycoproteins from the human erythrocyte have been studied after their incorporation into lipid bilayer systems. Glycophorin (which is the M/N blood group determinant) and the ...

Assembly and budding of a virus from a membrane microdomain. Viruses have an outer protein shell called a capsid which surrounds the viral nucleic acid. Enveloped viruses, such as HIV, have an ...

The ways in which cells function are strongly dependent on cell membranes which enclose cellular compartments and separate the interiors of cells from the extracellular domain. Oxidative stress harms ...

Lysosomes are surrounded by a lipid bilayer that separates the acidic environment and the digestive enzymes of the organelle from the cytoplasm. Damage to this layer—lysosomal membrane ...

Research conducted by Toyohashi University of Technology in collaboration with Tohoku University elucidated the fusion process of proteoliposomes with an artificial lipid bilayer and the mechanism ...

Lipids and membrane proteins existing in cell membranes, which locates at the outermost layer of cells, are responsible for recognizing extracellular environments and transferring that information ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to visualize the structure and dynamics of a membrane microdomain in yeast cells. They aimed to understand ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 12 (March 22, 2022), pp. 1-8 (8 pages) Inward rectifier K⁺(Kir) channels regulate cell membrane potential ...