Understanding the interaction of ionic liquids with cellular membrane becomes utterly important to comprehend the activities of these liquids in living organisms. Lipid monolayer …
Ionic liquids (ILs) are important for their antimicrobial activity and are found to be toxic to some microorganisms. To shed light on the mechanism of their activities, the interaction of …
This protocol describes a single vesicle-vesicle microscopy system to study Ca2+-triggered vesicle fusion. Donor vesicles contain reconstituted synaptobrevin and synaptotagmin-1 …
There are great efforts of synthesizing imidazolium-based ionic liquids (ILs) for developing new antibiotics as these molecules have shown strong antibacterial activities. Compared to …
Polyphosphoinositides (PPI) and in particular PI (4, 5) P 2, are among the most highly charged molecules in cell membranes, are important in many cellular signaling pathways …
Lipid membranes play an essential role in biology, acting as host matrices for biomolecules like proteins and facilitating their functions. Their structures and structural responses to …
The large number of potential applications of ionic liquids (ILs) requires an understanding of their environmental impacts including their adverse effects on microorganisms living in soil …
A cellular membrane, primarily a lipid bilayer, surrounds the internal components of a biological cell from the external components. This self-assembled bilayer is known to be …
Graphene-based nano-technology is the future of biomedical devices including biosensors and, hence, it is essential to unravel the interaction of graphene oxide (GO) with cellular …