Latest Advances in Biological Membranes
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 457
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lipid membranes; lipid structural variability; bio-physics; molecular dynamics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Compared to other biological macromolecular structures, our knowledge, interest, and awareness of membranes’ complexity have slowly grown. For a long time, they have participated in studies as simple supports, a separator of chemical potentials and anchoring sites for many bioactives. Currently, the biological model of membranes has been enriched and perfected in its knowledge, thanks to studies where the structural lipid variability, the consideration of microdomains, and the functionality given in the study of different phases generated or segregated by different stimuli, among other new observations, have been taken into account. Structural variability provides versatility both in the interphase region and in the hydrophobic core of the membranes, and it is in both substructures where its modulation manifests substantial changes in the interaction with proteins, biomolecules, or bioeffectors.
This Special Issue aims to show the advances in this new model of biological membrane through works that provide results on the functionality of structural lipid variability, the modulation of phase segregation, and the different stimuli that allow us to demonstrate the functional complexity of biological membranes.
Dr. Florencia Martini
Dr. Laura Cecilia Laurella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biological membranes
- lipid structural variability
- segregation domains
- new biological model
- lipid complexity function
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