European biophysics journal : EBJ, 45(8), 843-852 (2016-08-03)
Black lipid membranes (BLMs) have been used for detecting single-channel activities of pore-forming peptides and ion channels. However, the short lifetimes and poor mechanical stability of suspended bilayers limit their applications in high throughput electrophysiological experiments. In this work, we present
Journal of molecular biology, 427(16), 2599-2609 (2015-03-19)
Large GTPases of the dynamin superfamily promote membrane fusion and division, processes that are crucial for intracellular trafficking and organellar dynamics. To promote membrane scission, dynamin proteins polymerize, wrap around, and constrict the membrane; however, the mechanism underlying their role
Co-existing disordered and ordered (raft) membrane domains exist in Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. However, although B. burgdorferi contains cholesterol lipids, it lacks sphingolipids-a crucial component of rafts in eukaryotes. To define the principles of ordered lipid domain
Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 45(9), 2502-2514 (2019-06-30)
Our group recently presented a simple strategy using the non-ionic surfactant, Pluronic, as a size control excipient to produce nanobubbles in the 100-nm range, which exhibited stability and echogenicity on par with clinically available microbubbles. The objective of the present
Perilipin 1 is a lipid droplet coating protein known to regulate lipid metabolism in adipocytes by serving as a physical barrier as well as a recruitment site for lipases to the lipid droplet. Phosphorylation of perilipin 1 by protein kinase
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