The Biophysics of Cell Membranes Biological Consequences /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Epand, Richard M. (Editor), Ruysschaert, Jean-Marie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Series in Biophysics, 19
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Medical genetics.; Bioorganic chemistry.; Cell membranes.; Life Sciences.; Membrane Biology.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.; Bioorganic Chemistry.; Gene Function.

This volume focuses on the modulation of biological membranes by specific biophysical properties. The readers are introduced to emerging biophysical approaches that mimick specific states (like membrane lipid asymmetry, membrane curvature, lipid flip-flop, lipid phase separation) that are relevant t...

Table of Contents:

• Preparation and Physical Properties of Asymmetric Model Membrane Vesicles
• Spontaneous lipid flip-flop in membranes: A still unsettled picture from experiments and simulations
• Membrane Lipid-Protein Interactions
• Principles of mechanosensing at the membrane interface
• Lipid domains and membrane (re)shaping: from biophysics to biology
• Minimal Cellular Models for Origins-of-Life Studies and Biotechnology.