Characterization of Biological Membranes

Preface
Contents
List of contributing authors
Part I. Structural and dynamic characterization
1. Biophysical perspectives of lipid membranes through the optics of neutron and X-ray scattering
2. X-ray structure analysis of lipid membrane systems: solid-supported bilayers, bilayer stacks, and vesicles
3. Structural investigations of membrane-associated proteins by neutron reflectometry
4. Collective dynamics in model biological membranes measured by neutron spin echo spectroscopy
5. Spontaneous lipid transfer rate constants
6. Fundamentals of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and its applications
7. Collective dynamics in lipid membranes
8. Mapping protein– and peptide–membrane interactions by atomic force microscopy: strategies and opportunities
9. Imaging the distributions of lipids and proteins in the plasma membrane with high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry
Part II. Biomimetic, biorelated, or biological systems
10. Cholesterol in model membranes
11. Study of mitochondrial membrane structure and dynamics on the molecular mechanism of mitochondrial membrane processes
12. Monitoring oxygen-sensitive membranes and vitamin E as an antioxidant
13. Giant vesicles: A biomimetic tool for assessing membrane material properties and interactions
14. Formation and properties of asymmetric lipid vesicles prepared using cyclodextrin-catalyzed lipid exchange
15. Application and characterization of asymmetric-supported membranes
16. Styrene-maleic acid copolymers: a new tool for membrane biophysics
Part III. Molecular dynamics – simulation and theory
17. On the origin of “Rafts”: The plasma membrane as a microemulsion
18. Combining experiment and simulation to study complex biomimetic membranes
19. Simulations of biological membranes with the Martini model
20. Multiscale modeling of lipid membrane
21. Molecular dynamics simulation studies of small molecules interacting with cell membranes