Caveolae, submicroscopic pits of the plasma membrane, consist of caveolin membrane proteins and cytoplasmic cavin proteins. Caveolae can bud from the plasma membrane, fuse with early endosomes and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Cholesterol is an essential component in the plasma membranes of animals with multiple effects on the physical properties of membranes ...

Collaboration between researchers at the University of Geneva, Institut de biologie structurale de Grenoble, and the University of Fribourg has shown how lipids and proteins in cell membranes react in ...

How do embryos develop? Why does the cortex of the mammalian brain fold? How do we feel touch at our fingertips? These and ...

Cell membranes play a crucial role in maintaining the integrity and functionality of cells. However, the mechanisms by which they perform these roles are not yet fully understood. Scientists have used ...

Membrane proteins spend their time surrounded by lipids. For a long time, researchers thought those lipids didn’t really matter, that they were just a backdrop for the real players, an annoyance to be ...

The tomato Tobacco mosaic virus resistance-2² (Tm-2²) gene encodes a coiled-coil-nucleotide binding site-Leu-rich repeat protein lacking a conventional plasma membrane (PM) localization motif. Tm-2² ...

Cell’s are perhaps the most complex machines known to human kind. The sheer diversity of activity, machinery and timing is staggering in its breadth and complexity. And that raises an interesting ...

Researchers have developed a nanoparticle technology that can be used to stabilize membrane proteins so that their structure can be studied in a lipid environment. The method makes it possible to ...