Though the cell membrane is a protective barrier, it also plays a role in letting some foreign material in -- via ion channels that dot the cell's surface. Now new research from the Nobel Prize ...

Numerous protein domains bind to membrane phospholipids and drive the relocalization of proteins that are involved in crucial cell-signalling and membrane-trafficking events. Precise control of ...

Lipids are the building blocks of a cell's envelope - the cell membrane. In addition to their structural function, some lipids also play a regulatory role and decisively influence cell growth. The ...

Phospholipids differ from triglycerides in their ability to act at the cell membrane as well as functioning as emulsifiers in food products. This latter function exploits their ability to reduce ...

The implications of this liquid crystalline transition to the interpretation and use of infrared spectra for characterizing phospholipids, and also upon the rigidity of monolayers and bilayers ...

This chilling-induced leakage, attributed to a phase change in all the phospholipids of which the membrane is composed occurs at a slightly lower temperature than the change in the activation energy ...