Biological cell membranes are made up of phospholipid building blocks that both attract and repel water. Phospholipids are hydrophilic thanks to their polar phosphate group “heads” and hydrophobic ...

A new phospholipid, DOPE-Cx, was derived from a compound called ... demonstrates that DOPE-Cx lipids with specific hydrophobic chain structures induce non-lamellar cubic phases when mixed with ...

Soluble enzyme makes phospholipid membranes that could lead to synthetic minimal cells ... “The next step will be synthesizing the long hydrophobic chains from small molecules,” Stano says.

The delivery of such molecules across hydrophobic phospholipid membranes requires huge activation energies. To date, despite large investments by large pharma and biotech companies, this delivery ...

The hydrophobic surfactant proteins B and C are essential for lung function and pulmonary homeostasis after birth. These proteins enhance the spreading, adsorption, and stability of surfactant ...

Fluctuations in phospholipid composition can cause changes in membrane protein function, providing a previously unrecognized way to control cellular processes Date: February 18, 2018 ...

The lipids – which include phospholipids, glycolipids and sterols – form a bilayer, in which hydrophobic phospholipid tails join end to end, leaving the hydrophilic heads exposed to the outside.

Hydrophobic catalysis and a potential biological role of DNA unstacking induced by environment effects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2019; 116 (35): 17169 DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...

A 3D hybrid surface combining hydrophobic nanowires and hydrophilic microchannels efficiently removes condensate, preventing flooding and maintaining high heat transfer even at high subcooling.

The new study, conducted in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, addresses the much-debated question of whether graphene is hydrophobic or hydrophilic.

A liposome is a spherical-shaped vesicle that is composed of one or more phospholipid bilayers, which closely resembles the structure of cell membranes. The ability of liposomes to encapsulate ...

Figure 1: Membrane proteins (orange), whose hydrophobic side chains are covered by amphipathic detergents (black). ... Nanodiscs The solution to these problems was first described by Bayburt and ...