Many short cationic peptides are amphiphilic and are often termed antimicrobial peptides
(AMPs) as they can kill various microorganisms. These AMPs have largely been discovered …

Maintenance of lipid asymmetry across the two leaflets of the plasma membrane (PM)
bilayer is a ubiquitous feature of eukaryotic cells. Loss of this asymmetry has been widely …

Biological membranes are highly ordered structures consisting of mosaics of lipids and
proteins. Elevated temperatures can directly and effectively change the properties of these …

The plasma membrane (PM) is the biological membrane that separates the interior of all
cells from the outside. The PM is constituted of a huge diversity of proteins and lipids. In this …

Human red blood cells (RBC) are highly differentiated cells that have lost all organelles and
most intracellular machineries during their maturation process. RBC are fundamental for the …

Lipid membranes can spontaneously organize their components into domains of different
sizes and properties. The organization of membrane lipids into nanodomains might …

Membrane lipid composition varies greatly within submembrane compartments, different
organelle membranes, and also between cells of different cell stage, cell and tissue types …

Molecular dynamics simulations are now widely used to study emergent phenomena in lipid
membranes with complex compositions. Here, we present LiPyphilic—a fast, fully tested …

The plasma membrane is a∼ 4 nm thick phospholipid bilayer that defines the boundary of a
cell, segregating internal content from the external environment. Its hydrophobic interior …

Extracellular vesicles, such as exosomes, can be used as interesting models to study the
structure and function of biological membranes as these vesicles contain only one …