The Freiburg team of Shastri, Dr. Shengnan Xiang and Dr. Melika Sarem, have now discovered that liposomes — nanoscale vesicles of lipid molecules encompassing an aqueous core — can be used to alter the stiffness of the cell
plasma membrane through lipid transfer.
Not exact matches
The scientists observed that these proteins move extremely slowly in the
plasma membrane of the yeast and discovered how they travel
through the
membrane to reach the islands.
During an action potential, calcium influx into the presynaptic terminal triggers the fusion of synaptic vesicles with the
plasma membrane, leading to the release of transmitter
through the process of exocytosis.
High - speed Ca2 + imaging, using swept - field confocal microscopy, showed the Ca2 + influx
through the reverse - polarity channels was not localized to the hair bundle, but distributed across the apical
plasma membrane.
In addition to its antioxidant properties, LA increases glucose uptake
through recruitment of the glucose transporter - 4 to
plasma membranes, a mechanism that is shared with insulin - stimulated glucose uptake.