ArticleThe EMBO journal2022
Fluidity is the way to life: lipid phase separation in bacterial membranes.
Article in The EMBO journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Beyond Fluidity: The Role of Lipid Unsaturation in Membrane Function.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2023Review
- Membrane mediated phase separation of the bacterial nucleoid occlusion protein Noc.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
A hallmark of biological membranes is the dynamic localization of lipids and proteins. Lipids respond to temperature reduction below a critical point with phase separation, and poikilothermic animals and also bacteria adapt their lipid content to prevent gel phase formation in membranes. In a new study, Gohrbandt et al (2022) show that reduced membrane fluidity in bacterial cells causes reversible phase separation without membrane rupture in vivo, highlighting the physical robustness of biological membranes.
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