Mammalian lipids: structure, synthesis and function

S Cockcroft - Essays in biochemistry, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Lipids are essential constituents of cellular membranes. Once regarded merely as structural
components, lipids have taken centre stage with the discovery of their roles in cell signalling …

PI(4,5)P2: signaling the plasma membrane

RC Wills, GRV Hammond - Biochemical Journal, 2022 - portlandpress.com
In the almost 70 years since the first hints of its existence, the phosphoinositide,
phosphatidyl-D-myo-inositol 4, 5-bisphosphate has been found to be central in the …

Migrasome biogenesis: When biochemistry meets biophysics on membranes

D Wang, L Yu - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Migrasomes, newly identified organelles, play crucial roles in intercellular communication,
contributing to organ development and angiogenesis. These vesicles, forming on retraction …

Atomic view of the HIV-1 matrix lattice; implications on virus assembly and envelope incorporation

AB Samal, TJ Green, JS Saad - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
During the late phase of HIV type 1 (HIV-1) infection cycle, the virally encoded Gag
polyproteins are targeted to the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane (PM) for assembly …

[HTML][HTML] Improving our picture of the plasma membrane: Rafts induce ordered domains in a simplified model cytoplasmic leaflet

TA Enoki, GW Feigenson - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2022 - Elsevier
By study of asymmetric membranes, models of the cell plasma membrane (PM) have
improved, with more realistic properties of the asymmetric lipid composition of the …

A biophysical perspective of the regulatory mechanisms of ezrin/radixin/moesin proteins

Y Senju, FC Tsai - Biophysical Reviews, 2022 - Springer
Many signal transductions resulting from ligand–receptor interactions occur at the cell
surface. These signaling pathways play essential roles in cell polarization, membrane …

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 …

Phosphoinositide switches in cell physiology-From molecular mechanisms to disease

F Lolicato, W Nickel, V Haucke, M Ebner - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2024 - ASBMB
Phosphoinositides are amphipathic lipid molecules derived from phosphatidylinositol that
represent low abundance components of biological membranes. Rather than serving as …

[HTML][HTML] Moesin-ezrin-radixin-like protein merlin: Its conserved and distinct functions from those of ERM proteins

Y Senju, E Hibino - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), which encodes merlin (moesin-ezrin-radixin-like
protein), belongs to the band 4.1, ezrin, radixin, moesin (FERM) domain-containing 4.1 …

Charge-based immunoreceptor signalling in health and disease

X Shi, X He, C Xu - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Immunoreceptors have crucial roles in sensing environmental signals and initiating immune
responses to protect the host. Dysregulation of immunoreceptor signalling can therefore …