α-crystallin is a major protein found in the mammalian eye lens that works as a molecular
chaperone by preventing the aggregation of proteins and providing tolerance to stress in the …

The plasma membrane together with the cytoskeleton forms the only supramolecular
structure of the matured fiber cell which accounts for mostly all fiber cell lipids. The purpose …

Lipid nanodiscs are macromolecular assemblies, where a scaffold protein is wrapped
around a nanosized disc of a lipid bilayer, thus protecting the hydrocarbon chains at the disc …

Purpose: This research was undertaken to document the changes in the organization and
properties of human lens lipid membranes that occur with age. Methods: Human lens lipid …

Human lens-lipid membranes prepared from the total lipids extracted from clear and
cataractous lens cortexes and nuclei of 61–70-year-old donors by use of a rapid solvent …

Purpose: Plasma membranes of lens fiber cells have high levels of long-chain saturated fatty
acids, cholesterol, and sphingolipids—key components of lipid rafts. Thus, lipid rafts are …

EPR spin labeling has been used extensively to study lipids in model membranes to
understand their structures and dynamics in biological membranes. The lipid multilamellar …

Background Although assessment of glycated nail proteins may be a useful marker for
monitoring of diabetes, their nature and formation are still poorly understood. Besides a …

The results reported here clearly document changes in the properties and the organization
of fiber-cell membrane lipids that occur with age, based on electron paramagnetic …

The stretched exponential function (SEF) was used to analyze and interpret saturation
recovery (SR) electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) data obtained from spin-labeled …