The crystalline lens is a transparent and refractive biconvex structure formed by lens
epithelial cells (LECs) and lens fibers. Lens opacity, also known as cataracts, is the leading …

Since its inception more than thirty years ago, electroformation has become the most
commonly used method for growing giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). Although the method …

Cholesterol (Chol) is an essential component of animal cell membranes and is most
abundant in plasma membranes (PMs) where its concentration typically ranges from 10 to …

Surfactant protein C (SP-C) is an important player in enhancing the interfacial adsorption of
lung surfactant lipid films to the alveolar air-liquid interface. Doing so, surface tension drops …

Spin-label electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy is a versatile molecular
probe method that finds wide application in molecular biophysics and structural biology. This …

The transport of oxygen and other nonelectrolytes across lipid membranes is known to
depend on both diffusion and solubility in the bilayer, and to be affected by changes in the …

Cholesterol homeostasis is crucial for cellular and systemic function. The disorder of
cholesterol metabolism not only accelerates the onset of cardiovascular disease (CVD) but …

Several discoveries show that with age and cataract formation, β-crystallin binds with the
lens membrane or associates with other lens proteins, which bind with the fiber cell plasma …

Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are artificial membrane models which are of special
interest to researchers because of their similarity in size to eukaryotic cells. The most …

Oxygen and nitric oxide are small hydrophobic molecules that usually need to diffuse a
considerable distance to accomplish their biological functions and necessarily need to …