Handbook of Lipid Membranes (eBook, ePUB)

Molecular, Functional, and Materials Aspects
Redaktion: Safinya, Cyrus R.; Rädler, Joachim O.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This handbook provides a unique overview of lipid membrane fundamentals and applications. The fascinating world of lipids that harbor and govern so many biological functionalities are discussed within the context of membrane structures, interactions, and shape evolution. Beyond the fundamentals in lipid science, this handbook focuses on how scientists are building bioinspired biomimetic systems for applications in medicine, cosmetics, and nanotechnology.

Key Features:

• Includes experimental and theoretical overviews on the role of lipids, with or without associated biomolecules, as structural components imparting distinct membrane shapes and intermembrane interactions
• Covers the mechanisms of lipid-membrane curvature, by peptide and protein binding, and the roles of signalling lipids and the cytoskeleton in plasma membrane shape evolution
• Covers advanced X-ray and force measurement techniques
• Discusses applications in biomedicine, cosmetics, and nanotechnology, including lipid vectors in nucleic acid, drug delivery in dermal applications, and lipid-based sensors and artificial biointerfaces
• Covers artificial membranes from block copolymers, synthetic copolypeptides, and recombinant proteins
• Includes an exciting section that explores the role of lipids in the origin of life in hydrothermal conditions

This book is a highly informative companion for professionals in biophysics, biochemistry, physical chemistry, and material and pharmaceutical sciences and bioengineering.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429527814
• Artikelnr.: 62321953

Autorenporträt

Cyrus R. Safinya is professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Joachim O. Rädler is professor of experimental physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Editors. Contributors. Chapter 1 A Short History of Membrane
Physics. Chapter 2 Structures and Interactions in Freely Suspended
Multilayer Membranes and Dilute Lamellar Fluid Membranes from Synchrotron
X-Ray Scattering. Chapter 3 Structures of Lipid Membranes: Cubic and
Inverse Hexagonal Phases. Chapter 4 Structure of Lipid Membranes by
Advanced X-Ray Scattering and Imaging. Chapter 5 Adhesion Protein
Architecture and Intermembrane Potentials: Force Measurements and
Biological Significance. Chapter 6 Charged Membranes: Poisson¿Boltzmann
Theory, the DLVO Paradigm, and Beyond. Chapter 7 Membrane Shape Evolution
In Vitro. Chapter 8 Mechanisms of Membrane Curvature Generation by Peptides
and Proteins: A Unified Perspective on Antimicrobial Peptides. Chapter 9
Lipid Membrane Shape Evolution and the Actin Cytoskeleton. Chapter 10
Effects of Osmotic Stress on Topologically Closed Membrane Compartments.
Chapter 11 Cationic Liposomes as Spatial Organizers of Nucleic Acids in
One, Two, and Three Dimensions: Liquid Crystal Phases with Applications in
Delivery and Bionanotechnology. Chapter 12 Lipids in DNA, RNA, and Peptide
Delivery for In Vivo Therapeutic Applications. Chapter 13 Electrostatics of
Lipid Membranes Interacting with Oppositely Charged Macromolecules.
Chapter 14 Lipid-Based Bioanalytical Sensors. Chapter 15 Lipids in Dermal
Applications: Cosmetics and Pharmaceutics. Chapter 16 Supported Lipid
Bilayers. Chapter 17 Artificial Membranes Composed of Synthetic
Copolypeptides. Chapter 18 Synthetic Membranes from Block Copolymers,
Recombinant Proteins, and Dendrimers. Chapter 19 Amphiphilic Self-Assembly
and the Origin of Life in Hydrothermal Conditions. Index.