Lipids, or fats, are essential to life. They form the membranes around cells, protecting them from the outside. In nature, there is an enormous diversity of lipids, with each organism having its own ...

Cell membranes play a crucial role in maintaining the integrity and functionality of cells. However, the mechanisms by which ...

Lipid kinases are enzymes that play a critical role in both cell signaling and membrane trafficking by phosphorylating lipid ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope biology, defining the primary function of an important protein complex ...

Lipid kinases are enzymes that play a critical role in both cell signalling and membrane trafficking by phosphorylating lipid ...

While it has been known for 50 years that the two cell membrane leaflets are made of different types of lipids, it has been assumed by researchers that these two leaflets have roughly the same ...

Diverse Biological Roles of Membrane Lipids Membrane phospholipids are well known for their role as the main component of membranes where they form the lipid bilayer due to their amphipathic character ...

University at Buffalo researcher Viviana Monje and colleagues awarded $1.2 million grant to study how popular aquarium fish ...

Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape under pressure.

Variability among lipids affects cellular metabolism, signaling pathways, energy storage, and cell membrane structures. Therefore, it’s important for biomanufacturers to have an accurate ...

Within the family of cell membrane lipids known as phosphoinositides and the kinase enzymes that regulate them, phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) have been cast in a starring role as scientists ...

Three-quarters of the lipids in the deep-sea comb jellies were plasmalogens, a type of curved lipid that is rarer in surface animals. In the pressure of the deep sea, the curvy molecule conforms to ...