Sentence examples for inner and outer leaflets from inspiring English sources
To obtain spherical, smooth liposomes we included: i) 2 mol% cholesterol, to soften bilayers (Lemmich et al 1997), ii) lipids, which due to their spontaneous curvature stabilize the negative and positive curvatures of the inner and outer leaflets of unilamellar liposomes.
By inducing modifications in the phase behaviors and domain structures of the inner membrane, hemichromes may create large differences in the structures of inner and outer leaflets.
An alteration in the lipid composition (phospholipids, unesterefied cholesterol and glycolipids) and loss of asymmetry between the inner and outer leaflets of the lipid bilayer is associated with erythrocytes senescence.
One is active transport of PS, and to a lesser extent PE, from the outer to the inner leaflet by the aminophospholipid translocase; the other is equilibration of all phospholipids between the inner and outer leaflets by the scramblase.
At the molecular level, we show that SLPI is a ligand for the phospholipid scramblase 1 (PLSCR1) and PLSCR4, membrane proteins that are involved in the regulation of the movements of phospholipids between the inner and outer leaflets of the plasma membrane.
Flippases within the cell membrane shuttle doxorubicin between the inner and outer leaflets.
This unique flexibility of n-3 PUFA acyl chains impacts the organization of inner and outer leaflet lipid rafts by disrupting acyl chain packing and molecular order within rafts.
We found that the amounts of most membrane lipids extracted from AA and CC erythrocytes were similar, suggesting that our extraction procedure was able to release lipids from both the inner and outer leaflet.
(B ) Transmission electron cryomicroscopy allows resolution of the inner and outer leaflet of undisturbed liposomes (top panel).
In many naturally occurring bilayers, the compositions of the inner and outer membrane leaflets are different.
The PA composition of individual inner and outer membrane leaflets were altered another way.
