Modeling cell membranes as simple bilayer mixtures ... be shielded from water by neighboring phospholipid headgroups 11. Figure 2: Bilayer mixtures of DSPC/DOPC/cholesterol at 23 °C show rich ...

The boundary of each cell is defined by the phospholipid bilayer of the plasma membrane, which acts as an effective barrier to most water-soluble molecules. This boundary is not inert. The ...

Assembly and budding of a virus from a membrane microdomain. Viruses have an outer protein shell called a capsid which surrounds the viral nucleic acid. Enveloped viruses, such as HIV, have an ...