Membrane Shape and Biological Function is an important guide for anyone interested in the dynamic world of biological membranes. The book explores how membrane shape influences crucial biological processes and highlights its practical applications. It delves into the mechanics of lipid bilayers, their role in cellular processes, and computational methods for understanding membrane remodeling, including real-world applications such as the Golgi apparatus' structure and function, the role of inositol phospholipids in cellular organization, membrane fusion in cell biology, and the potential of lipid bilayers in neuromorphic computing. This comprehensive resource is valuable for students, researchers, and anyone curious about membrane biology.
Membrane Shape and Biological Function is an important guide for anyone interested in the dynamic world of biological membranes. The book explores how membrane shape influences crucial biological processes and highlights its practical applications.
1. The Effect of Membrane Deformation on the Spatial Distribution of
Lipids.
2. Flexible Surface Model for Lipid-Protein Interactions.
3.
Non-Lamellar Phases of Membrane Lipids.
4. Lipid Shape Matters.
5. Continuum
Modeling of Lipid Bilayers for Curvature Generation in Cellular Processes.
6.
Lipid Membrane Remodeling by (Bio)Polymers and Nanoparticles: Mechanistic
Insights From Multi-Scale Simulations.
7. Bicontinuous Inverted Cubic Phases
as Tools for Studying the Mechanism of Membrane-Remodeling Proteins.
8.
Recognition of Membrane Curvature by the Amphipathic Lipid Packing Sensor
(ALPS) Motif.
9. The Bending Rigidity of the Red Blood Cell Cytoplasmic
Membrane.
10. Shape and Function of the Golgi Apparatus.
11. Inositol Lipids
Are Key to Shaping Membranes and to Define the Cellular Lipid Landscape.
12.
Shaping Membranes in Cell-Cell Fusion.
13. Lipid Bilayers as Platforms for
Understanding Biological Memory and the Development of Neuromorphic Computing.
Drs. José Carlos Bozelli Jr and Richard M. Epand have contributed to advance our understanding of the active role of membrane shape in cellular functions. Their groundbreaking research, which revealed an elegant hierarchic coupling between membrane shape and lipid composition, has demonstrated the profound influence of membrane shape on molecular properties. This work, which is of utmost importance, lays the foundation for assembling this book and for further research in the field.
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