The phrase "assists membrane" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to describe a function or role related to a membrane, but it requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The protein assists membrane stability during cellular processes."
Alternatives: "supports membrane" or "aids membrane".
It has been debated whether the main function of Munc18 is for vesicle docking on the plasma membrane or whether it also assists membrane fusion (5, 23).
Recently, a homozygous mutation in individuals from two unrelated families displaying ataxia and muscle hypotonia was found in a gene (FAM36A) homologous to the yeast gene COX20 (Szklarczyk et al., 2013), which has previously been shown to encode a protein that assists membrane insertion and maturation of the COXII subunit of CIV (Elliott et al., 2012).
Recently, computationally assisted membrane protein solubilization (CAMPS) has been reported, where exposed hydrophobic residues on a protein's surface are computationally redesigned.
A previous report suggested that a Vam7-like SNARE protein of U. maydis, Yup1, could couple endocytosis and exocytosis by assisting membrane recycling processes [3].
Interaction of VirB3 with VirB4 might assist membrane localization of VirB4.
Such mineral surfaces may have acted as catalysts for nucleotide binding [ 32]; they might be responsible for the homochirality of biomolecules [ 33, 34]; they might have assisted membrane production and thus the formation of the first protocell vesicles [ 35]; and they may have protected replicators from the harmful effects of UV radiation [ 36].
The Seventeen Kilodalton Protein (Skp) is a trimeric periplasmic chaperone that assists outer membrane proteins in their folding and insertion into membranes.
The resultant EF assisted LbL membrane exhibited a flux of 65.6 l m−2 h−1 and a rejection of 80.9% to 0.5 g/l MgCl2 at 0.40 MPa.
Other hi-tech ideas that are being brought out of hospitals and on to the streets include the VA-ECMO (ventricular assist extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), in which oxygen is added to the blood outside the body - effectively a heart-lung bypass machine.
AVCO2R is commercially available through Novalung (GmbH, Hechingen, Germany) and marketed as the interventional lung assist (iLA) membrane ventilator.
An alternative explanation is that actin is recruited to assist with membrane tubulation (invagination) during endocytosis, just before the dynamin-mediated scission (Ferguson et al, 2009).
