Sentences with phrase «hydrophobic membranes»

This new lipid exchange envelope penetration (LEEP) process for incorporating the nanostructures involves wrapping CNTs or nanoparticles with highly charged DNA or polymer molecules, enabling them to penetrate into the fatty, hydrophobic membranes that surround chloroplasts.

The fingerprint sensor is integrated with the home button, and features a «Hydrophobic membrane» that the company claims, helps you unlock despite wet fingers.

Not exact matches

Via this hydrophobic anchor, the Fab fragment got naturally inserted into the hydrophobic liposomal membrane part during liposomal preparation.

Substituting those residues with alanine, which is hydrophobic, reduced lipid binding by 40-fold and stopped localization to the plasma membrane.

We see this in hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions that propel lipid molecules in water to corral together to form the two - layer membranes that serve as the coatings surrounding cells.

The C - terminal end of the cytoplasmic tail of gp41, measuring 105 amino acid residues, was tightly associated to the membrane and had three alpha - helixes with portions that were hydrophobic and portions that were hydrophilic.

For example, the aquaporin protein - mediated flow of water across biological cell membranes is down to a balance between hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions with channel surfaces.

Researchers suspect the dyes were hydrophobic and altered how the ganglioside interacted with the cell membrane.

This is connected with the fact that more PAH is incorporated into the ciliates» lipid cell membrane, the more hydrophobic the PAHs» says Dorothea Gilbert.

Sorting in model membranes by cholesterol - mediated hydrophobic matching.

Most surfactants, like soap molecules in bubbles and phospholipids in cellular membranes, have small water - loving (hydrophilic) heads and long fat - loving (hydrophobic) tails that determine how they arrange in space.

Lateral sorting in model membranes by cholesterol - mediated hydrophobic matching.

These authors used mutational analysis to show that the hydrophobic side of this AH is the part of the Ire1p involved in sensing problems in the ER membrane.

Recent successful steps in this direction were for example identifying that hydrophobic mismatch and electrostatic interaction with the lipid PIP2 are driving the formation of active complexes of the SNARE protein synatxin - 1 in plasma membrane.

One major obstacle in crystallizing membrane proteins was that they are actually membrane proteins and lipids together, meaning the membrane is partly hydrophobic and it is thus impossible to create an aqueous solution.

Both the cationic and hydrophobic features, which form a single membrane - binding surface, are required for SK1 to bind to membranes and drive a cellular invasion phenotype that may be linked to cancer metastasis.

Im and his colleagues from the University of Kansas, University of Maryland and Stockholm University investigate the differences and similarities of the membrane properties such as area per lipid, hydrophobic thickness, and acyl chain order.