Lipid Bilayers: Structure and Interactions

✍ Scribed by Dr. John Katsaras, Dr. Thomas Gutberlet (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 304
Series: Biological Physics Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Lipid bilayers represent the fundamental model system for biological membranes. In recent years, we have been presented with a wealth of important insights into the structural and functional abilities of lipid bilayers with real possibilities in understanding the complex and varied behaviour of biological membranes. This volume is intended to give the researcher presently in the field and those wishing to enter the field a comprehensive overview into the current state of the art of lipid bilayer research. Detailed reviews are given on such topics as, lipid bilayer structure and dynamics, hydration of lipid bilayers, the role and behaviour of lipid bilayers on fusion and rupture, interaction of lipid bilayers and monolayers with small organic molecules and other additives such as proteins and finally, on the production and characterization of highly aligned bilayers under biologically relevant conditions. The book, besides being a reference, could be used in a graduate level courses with special emphasis in model membrane systems and physical techniques characterization.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Structure and Interactions of Lipid Bilayers: Role of Fluctuations....Pages 1-23
Aligned Lipid—Water Systems....Pages 25-45
Conformations of Fluid Lipid Membranes....Pages 47-88
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Phospholipid Bilayers....Pages 89-107
New Insights into Biomembrane Structure from Two-Dimensional Nuclear Overhauser Enhancement Spectroscopy....Pages 109-125
X-ray and Neutron Scattering Studies of Lipid Monolayers and Single Bilayers....Pages 127-147
Direct Determination of Biomembrane Structures....Pages 149-164
X-ray Diffraction Studies on the Effect of Additives on the Phase Behaviour of Lipids....Pages 165-187
Peptides in Lipid Bilayers: Determination of Location by Absolute-Scale X-ray Refinement....Pages 189-206
Solid State NMR Approaches to the Study of Membrane Proteins in Magnetically Aligned Model Membranes....Pages 207-231
Liposome Phase Systems as Membrane Activity Sensors for Peptides....Pages 233-264
Fusion and Rupture of Lipid Model Membranes....Pages 265-287
Back Matter....Pages 289-297

✦ Subjects

Lipidology;Biophysics and Biological Physics;Cell Biology

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