1st Edition
Membrane Shape and Biological Function
Preface
In Memoriam and Acknowledgement
Abbreviations
1. The Effect of Membrane Deformation on the Spatial Distribution of Lipids
David W. Allender and Michael Schick
2. Flexible Surface Model for Lipid-Protein Interactions
Steven D. E. Fried and Michael F. Brown
3. Non-Lamellar Phases of Membrane Lipids
John M. Seddon and Arwen I. I. Tyler
4. Lipid Shape Matters
James Jennings, Enrico F. Semeraro and Georg Pabst
5. Continuum Modeling of Lipid Bilayers for Curvature Generation in Cellular Processes
P. Rangamani
6. Lipid Membrane Remodeling by (Bio)Polymers and Nanoparticles: Mechanistic Insights From Multi-Scale Simulations
Sanjoy Paul, Sayantan Mondal, Zeke A. Piskulich, Taraknath Mandal and Qiang Cui
7. Bicontinuous Inverted Cubic Phases as Tools for Studying the Mechanism of Membrane-Remodeling Proteins
David P. Siegel
8. Recognition of Membrane Curvature by the Amphipathic Lipid Packing Sensor (ALPS) Motif
Antoine Reynaud, Romain Gautier and Bruno Antonny
9. The Bending Rigidity of the Red Blood Cell Cytoplasmic Membrane
Sebastian Himbert and Maikel C. Rheinstädter
10. Shape and Function of the Golgi Apparatus
Felix Campelo
11. Inositol Lipids Are Key to Shaping Membranes and to Define the Cellular Lipid Landscape
Tamas Balla, Yeun Ju Kim, Amrita Mandal, Gergo Gulyas, Yang Niu, Alejandro Alvarez-Prats and Joshua Pemberton
12. Shaping Membranes in Cell-Cell Fusion
Kamran Melikov and Leonid V. Chernomordik
13. Lipid Bilayers as Platforms for Understanding Biological Memory and the Development of Neuromorphic Computing
C. P. Collier, D. Bolmatov and J. Katsaras
Index
Biography
Drs. José Carlos Bozelli Jr and Richard M. Epand have contributed to advance our understanding of the active role of membrane shape in cellular functions. Their groundbreaking research, which revealed an elegant hierarchic coupling between membrane shape and lipid composition, has demonstrated the profound influence of membrane shape on molecular properties. This work, which is of utmost importance, lays the foundation for assembling this book and for further research in the field.
