On the Decrease in Lateral Mobility of Phospholipids by Sugars

TL;DR: This work discusses several key questions of lateral mobility investigation in planar lipid membranes, namely the influence which membrane and aqueous phase composition, choice of a fluorescent tracer molecule, frictional coupling between the two membrane leaflets and between membrane and solid support has on the lateral mobility of lipids.

TL;DR: It is shown that at low ionic strength SNARE-mediated membrane fusion becomes strictly dependent on both Ca2+ and synaptotagmin-1, and functions as a distance regulator that tethers the liposomes too far from the plasma membrane for SNARE nucleation in the absence of Ca2+, but while bringing theliposomes close enough for membrane fusion in the presence ofCa2+.

TL;DR: An overview of the existing methods for GUV production is given and efforts on forming single, free floating vesicles up to several tens of μm in diameter and at high yield in various buffer solutions with physiological ionic strength and pH are presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the changes in soluble carbohydrate content, transcript levels for genes encoding related enzymes, and the ascorbic acid regeneration cycle in fruit stored at 0°C and 5°C for 28 days.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method is described to realize coupling to an external bath with constant temperature or pressure with adjustable time constants for the coupling, which can be easily extendable to other variables and to gradients, and can be applied also to polyatomic molecules involving internal constraints.

TL;DR: Although the derivation of the algorithm is presented in terms of matrices, no matrix matrix multiplications are needed and only the nonzero matrix elements have to be stored, making the method useful for very large molecules.

TL;DR: In this article, an analytical algorithm called SETTLE for resetting the positions and velocities to satisfy the holonomic constraints on the rigid water model is presented, which is based on the Cartesian coordinate system and can be used in place of SHAKE and RATTLE.

TL;DR: In this article, a three-point charge model (on hydrogen and oxygen positions) with a Lennard-Jones 6-12 potential on the oxygen positions only was developed, and parameters for the model were determined from 12 molecular dynamics runs covering the two-dimensional parameter space of charge and oxygen repulsion.