[HTML][HTML] Cracking the membrane lipid code

A Melero, N Jiménez-Rojo - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Why has nature acquired such a huge lipid repertoire? Although it would be theoretically
possible to make a lipid bilayer fulfilling barrier functions with only one glycerophospholipid …

Synthetic Lipid Biology

PHB Chen, XL Li, JM Baskin - Chemical Reviews, 2025 - ACS Publications
Cells contain thousands of different lipids. Their rapid and redundant metabolism, dynamic
movement, and many interactions with other biomolecules have justly earned lipids a …

MemPrep, a new technology for isolating organellar membranes provides fingerprints of lipid bilayer stress

J Reinhard, L Starke, C Klose, P Haberkant… - The EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Biological membranes have a stunning ability to adapt their composition in response to
physiological stress and metabolic challenges. Little is known how such perturbations affect …

Postsynthetic photocontrol of giant liposomes via fusion-based photolipid doping

SD Pritzl, J Morstein, S Kahler, DB Konrad, D Trauner… - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report on photolipid doping of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) via vesicle fusion with
small unilamellar photolipid vesicles (pSUVs), which enables retroactive optical control of …

Photoswitchable Isoprenoid Lipids Enable Optical Control of Peptide Lipidation

J Morstein, T Bader, AL Cardillo… - ACS chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photoswitchable lipids have emerged as attractive tools for the optical control of lipid
bioactivity, metabolism, and biophysical properties. Their design is typically based on the …

Pixelated High-Q Metasurfaces for in Situ Biospectroscopy and Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Classification of Lipid Membrane Photoswitching Dynamics

M Barkey, R Büchner, A Wester, SD Pritzl… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nanophotonic devices excel at confining light into intense hot spots of electromagnetic near
fields, creating exceptional opportunities for light–matter coupling and surface-enhanced …

Photolipid excitation triggers depolarizing optocapacitive currents and action potentials

CAZ Bassetto Jr, J Pfeffermann, R Yadav… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Optically-induced changes in membrane capacitance may regulate neuronal activity without
requiring genetic modifications. Previously, they mainly relied on sudden temperature jumps …

A new technology for isolating organellar membranes provides fingerprints of lipid bilayer stress

J Reinhard, L Starke, C Klose, P Haberkant… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Biological membranes have a stunning ability to adapt their composition in response to
physiological stress and metabolic challenges. Little is known how such perturbations affect …

Pixelated high-Q metasurfaces for in-situ biospectroscopy and AI-enabled classification of lipid membrane photoswitching dynamics

M Barkey, R Büchner, A Wester, SD Pritzl… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Nanophotonic devices excel at confining light into intense hot spots of the electromagnetic
near fields, creating unprecedented opportunities for light-matter coupling and surface …

Structural and Signaling Mechanisms of ICMT-Mediated KRAS4B Methylation

AL Cardillo - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Mutated Ras proteins are implicated in~ 20% of all human cancer cases. Of these
cancercausing Ras mutations, 80% of missense mutations are in the isoform KRas4B. In the …