In the last five decades, the significance of protein-lipid interactions in biological systems began to be widely explored; the most important hand marks in the knowledge of protein-lipid interactions from 1969 up to now ...

The interactions of proteins with membrane surfaces are important to many biological processes, including signaling, recognition, and membrane trafficking, cell division and cell structure. When the Fluid Mosaic Model (FMM) ...

Cell membranes are composed of a lipid bilayer containing proteins that cross and/or interact with lipids on either side of the two leaflets. The basic structure of cell membranes is this bilayer, composed of two opposing ...

Intestinal fatty acid-binding protein (IFABP) is highly expressed in the intestinal epithelium and it belongs to the family of soluble lipid binding proteins. These proteins are thought to participate in most aspects of ...

Influenza A virus is a pathogen responsible for severe seasonal epidemics threatening human and animal populations every year. One of the ten proteins encoded by the viral genome, the matrix protein M1, is abundantly ...

Anandamide is a lipid neurotransmitter derived from arachidonic acid, a polyunsaturated fatty acid. The chemical differences between anandamide and arachidonic acid result in a slightly enhanced solubility in water and ...

Human phospholipid scramblase 1 (SCR) catalyzes phospholipid transmembrane (flip-flop) motion. This protein is assumed to bind the membrane hydrophobic core through a transmembrane domain (TMD) as well as via covalently ...

Abstract: Using the crosstalk between the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) and its lipid microenvironment as a paradigm, this short overviewanalyzes the occurrence of structuralmotifswhich appear not only to be ...