Lipids and Membrane Biophysics

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Preface;Introductory Lecture: Basic quantities in model biomembranes;PAPERS AND DISCUSSIONS;

Switchable domain partitioning and diffusion of DNA origami rods on membranes;

The effect of cholesterol on the intrinsic rate of lipid flip–flop as measured by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy;

Computer simulations of the phase separation in model membranes;

STED microscopy detects and quantifies liquid phase separation in lipid membranes using a new far-red emitting fluorescent phosphoglycerolipid analogue;

Critical point fluctuations in supported lipid membranes;

General discussion;

Lipid phase behaviour under steady state conditions;

Transient pearling and vesiculation of membrane tubes under osmotic gradients;

Mode specific elastic constants for the gel, liquid-ordered, and liquid-disordered phases of DPPC/DOPC/cholesterol model lipid bilayers;

Tuning the aggregation behaviour of single-chain bolaphospholipids in aqueous suspension: from nanoparticles to nanofibres to lamellar phases;

Polycontinuous geometries for inverse lipid phases with more than two aqueous network domains;

Physical properties of mixed bilayers containing lamellar and nonlamellar lipids: insights from coarse-grain molecular dynamics simulations;

General discussion;

Spontaneous tubulation of membranes and vesicles reveals membrane tension generated by spontaneous curvature;

Formation and analysis of topographical domains between lipid membranes tethered by DNA hybrids of different lengths;

Molecular view on protein sorting into liquid-ordered membrane domains mediated by gangliosides and lipid anchors;

Gaussian curvature elasticity determined from global shape transformations and local stress distributions: a comparative study using the MARTINI model;

Elastic properties of polyunsaturated phosphatidylethanolamines influence rhodopsin function;

Anomalous and normal diffusion of proteins and lipids in crowded lipid membranes;

General discussion;

Interactions of drugs and amphiphiles with membranes: modulation of lipid bilayer elastic properties by changes in acyl chain unsaturation and protonation;

Cell cycle dependent changes in membrane stored curvature elastic energy: evidence from lipidomic studies;

Impact of oxidized phospholipids on the structural and dynamic organization of phospholipid membranes: a combined DSC and solid state NMR study;

Materials characterization of the low temperature sensitive liposome (LTSL): effects of the lipid composition (lysolipid and DSPE–PEG2000) on the thermal transition and release of doxorubicin;

Segregated ordered lipid phases and protein-promoted membrane cohesivity are required for pulmonary surfactant films to stabilize and protect the respiratory surface;

Gibbs energy determinants of lipoprotein insertion into lipid membranes: the case study of Ras proteins;

General discussion;

Concluding remarks;