Membrane permeabilizing peptides (MPPs) are as ubiquitous as the lipid bilayer
membranes they act upon. Produced by all forms of life, most membrane permeabilizing …

The complexity of biological membranes has motivated the development of a wide variety of
simpler model systems whose size, geometry, and composition can be tailored with great …

Solid supported bilayer lipid membranes are model systems to mimic natural cell
membranes in order to understand structural and functional properties of such systems. The …

The importance of cell membranes in biological systems has prompted the development of
model membrane platforms that recapitulate fundamental aspects of membrane biology …

Artificially reproducing cellular environments is a key aim of synthetic biology, which has the
potential to greatly enhance our understanding of cellular mechanisms. Microfluidic and lab …

This contribution summarizes some of our efforts in designing, synthesizing, assembling,
and characterizing functional tethered bimolecular lipid membranes (tBLMs) as a novel …

Phospholipid membranes are versatile structures for mimicking biological surfaces. Bilayer
and monolayer membranes can be formed on solid supports, leading to enhanced stability …

Membranes represent essential barriers between the interfaces of living systems. Their
importance as an intrinsic and extrinsic barrier of cells and consequent direct involvement in …

Tethered bilayer lipid membranes are stable and promising model systems that mimic
several properties of biological membranes. They provide an electrically insulating platform …

Membrane proteins perform a large number of essential biological tasks, but the
understanding of these proteins has progressed much more slowly than that of globular …