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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...