Researchers from the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) have uncovered the 3D structure of the ...

New research finds that these proteins can be delivered to the membrane via a simple three-part system. The delivery system for an important class of proteins in the cell membrane can be fully ...

Thanks to membrane barriers and transport proteins, the cell can accumulate nutrients in higher concentrations than exist in the environment and, conversely, dispose of waste products (Figure 3).

Lipid membranes, which form the outer layer of cells, can be engineered to influence cellular functions. For example, ...

Bearing three alcohol groups, glycerol is a basic building block for the cell membrane. (Other components include fatty acids and small charged molecules.) And not just in E. coli. Indeed ...

The cell membrane, which contains a hydrophilic part that is miscible well with water on the one side and a hydrophobic part that is not miscible well with water on the other, opens and closes ion ...

Like the exterior walls of a house, the plasma membrane is semi ... of carbon dioxide (Figure 3). The particular energy pathway that a cell employs depends in large part on whether that cell ...

New 3-D maps of water distribution during cellular membrane fusion are accelerating scientific understanding of cell development, which could lead to new treatments for diseases associated with ...

That is the role of the cell membrane, a flexible film made largely of lipids. These are smallish tadpole-shaped molecules with heads that are comfortable in water and twin tails that shun it.