Oregon Health & Science University, in collaboration with Oregon State University, has discovered the structural organization ...

“This work challenges a major assumption of cell biology by showing that the plasma membrane, the flexible bilayer that surrounds the cell, can have drastically different phospholipid ...

Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biofunctional Materials, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries, College of Chemistry and ...

Membrane proteins have been found to contain hidden pathways that can be exploited to alter cell behavior, potentially leading to the development of new or improved drugs.

New pathways discovered for drugs to act on cells Previously unknown access points in cell membrane proteins have been discovered, enabling laboratory-developed drugs to modify cell function Date ...

1Genome Research Center, GC Genome, Yongin-si, South Korea. *Corresponding Author: Eun-Hae Cho, Genome Research Center, GC Genome, 107, Ihyeon-ro 30 beon-gil, Yongin-si, 16924, South Korea. E-mail: ...

The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus at Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel ...

a variety of other cell types including pacemakers, fibroblasts, and pericytes are also known to be present (2). The plasma membrane of vascular smooth muscle (SMC) and endothelial (EC) cells is ...

In this article, we aim to summarize the current knowledge on the interplay of lipid rafts and IgG binding FcRs with a focus on the plasma membrane composition and receptor localization in immune ...

Profilee Satyajit Mayor discusses his explorations of cell membranes, which are helping to update the classical fluid mosaic model of dynamic cellular boundaries. A series of rodent experiments showed ...