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Small, nonpolar cyclic peptides can both bind challenging targets and cross cell membranes, making them attractive for addressing currently undruggable targets such as many protein–protein interactions (PPIs). However, developing such compounds de novo without prior information about lead structures such as natural ligands or fragments remains a notable challenge. Here we show that functional screening of structurally highly diverse cyclic peptide libraries synthesized at nanomole scale allows identificatio

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2026

Second harmonic imaging of membrane potentials: comparing water and chromophores as probes

The electrostatic potential of lipid membranes is an important metric to gain insight into the physiological state of cells. Second harmonic (SH) imaging has emerged as a powerful tool to perform in-situ and in-vivo electrostatic potential measurements, either using targeted probes, or label-free by using water as a probe. In this work we compare both modalities, by performing SH imaging on freestanding lipid membranes (FLMs) in aqueous solutions. Correlating the SH intensity to an applied external potentia

Elsevier BV2026

Fusion of lipid membranes: an alternative pathway

Membrane fusion is ubiquitous in myriad biological processes, including presynaptic neurotransmitter release, myoblast fusion, virus entry, and fertilization. It is often considered in the presence of fusogenic proteins, which mediate the fusion by pulling the membranes into contact to overcome the high energy barrier imposed by hydration repulsion. Here we uncover an alternative pathway: membrane fusion arising from electroporation induced by transmembrane potentials in absence of proteins. Using biased mo

openRxiv2026

Ether lipid remodeling during neuronal differentiation prevents ferroptosis

Ferroptosis is a form of cell death driven by iron-dependent lipid peroxidation, with specific lipid species playing key roles in modulating susceptibility. Among these, ether lipids have shown conflicting effects, being linked to both protection and sensitization. Here, we dissect the relationship between lipid structure and ferroptosis sensitivity and explain how ether lipids exert context-dependent effects. Ether lipids can promote ferroptosis through a metabolic bias towards the accumulation of polyunsa

bioRxiv2026

Quantitative imaging of lipid transport in mammalian cells

Eukaryotic cells produce over 1,000 different lipid species that tune organelle membrane properties, control signalling and store energy1,2. How lipid species are selectively sorted between organelles to maintain specific membrane identities is largely unclear, owing to the difficulty of imaging lipid transport in cells3. Here we measured the retrograde transport and metabolism of individual lipid species in mammalian cells using time-resolved fluorescence imaging of bifunctional lipid probes in combination

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Fabrication of self-emulsifying lipid microstructure by stiffness-tunable mold for drug delivery applications

Arnaud Bertsch

Amphiphilic lipid formulations, such as self-emulsifying drug delivery systems, offer advantages for enhancing drug release control and expanding their applicability across various administration routes. By integrating microfabrication techniques with these lipid-based systems, additional functionalities such as controlled drug release can be introduced. This can broaden lipid's potential for advanced biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. However, lipids face major fabrication challenges due to their

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Adherent cells sustain membrane tension gradients independently of migration

Tension propagates in lipid bilayers over hundreds of microns within milliseconds, seemingly precluding the formation of tension gradients. Nevertheless, plasma membrane tension gradients have been reported in migrating cells and along growing axons. Here, we show that the mechanosensitive, fluorescent membrane probe Flipper-TR visualizes membrane tension gradients in artificial and cellular membranes. Images of tension gradients allow their quantitative characterization, showing that they are long-ranged a

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Lipidome of Saharan dust aerosols

Lipidomics, a subfield of metabolomics, is an emerging field where hundreds to thousands of lipid species are simultaneously identified. Given the ubiquity and diverse biological roles of lipids, lipidomics offers valuable insights into mechanisms and the discovery of biomarkers related to environmental stressors that affect the cellular physiology and their numerous biochemical pathways. The major source of lipids in the atmosphere are the biogenic particles (bioaerosols) e.g., bacteria, fungi, pollen, pla

2025

Imaging Lipid Metabolism at the Golgi Complex

The development of fluorescence-based molecular imaging has revolutionized cell biology allowing the visualization of specific biomolecules at the microscopic and, more recently, at the nanoscopic scale while in their relevant biological contexts. Nonetheless, despite the imaging toolkit for biologists interested in exploring the subcellular localization and dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids has expanded exponentially in the last decades, the means to visualize and track lipids in cells did not develop

Springer Science+Business Media2019

Lipid exchange and signaling at ER–Golgi contact sites

Meticulous observations of the cell perinuclear region where the Golgi and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) networks intermingle have revealed close contact sites of barely 20 nm between these two organelles. Recent studies demonstrate that molecular machine ...

2018

Clustering on Membranes: Fluctuations and More

Julian Charles Shillcock

Clustering of extracellular ligands and proteins on the plasma membrane is required to perform specific cellular functions, such as signaling and endocy- tosis. Attractive forces that originate in perturbations of the membrane’s phys- ical properties contr ...

2018

Polycation Interactions with Zwitterionic Phospholipid Monolayers on Oil Nanodroplets Suspensions in Water (D2O) Probed by Sum Frequency Scattering

Sylvie Roke, Nikolay Smolentsev

By combining dynamic light scattering (DLS) measurements and infrared (IR) spectroscopy with the interface- and bond-specificity of vibrational sum frequency generation scattering (SFS) spectroscopy, we probe several structural aspects of how zwitterionic ...

2018

Label-free and charge-sensitive dynamic imaging of lipid membrane hydration on millisecond time scales

Sylvie Roke, Orly Bagunu Tarun

Biological membranes are highly dynamic and complex lipid bilayers, responsible for the fate of living cells. To achieve this function, the hydrating environment is crucial. However, membrane imaging typically neglects water, focusing on the insertion of p ...

2018

MATHICSE Technical Report : Biomembrane modeling with Isogeometric Analysis

Alfio Quarteroni

We consider the numerical approximation of lipid biomembranes, including red blood cells, described through the Canham-Helfrich model, according to which the shape minimizes the bending energy under area and volume constraints. Energy minimization is performed via L2- gradient flow of the Canham-Helfrich energy using two Lagrange multipliers to weakly enforce the constraints. This yields a highly nonlinear, high order, time dependent geometric Partial Differential Equation (PDE). We represent the biomembran

MATHICSE2017

Product diversification in the sugarcane biorefinery through algae growth and supercritical CO 2 extraction: Thermal and economic analysis

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas

The sugarcane sector in Brazil has undergone a major modernization in the last thirty years. Embracing the biorefinery concept, this sector is investigating bioproduct diversification and mostly putting a lot of effort and investment on second generation e ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Plasmonic nanohole arrays on Si-Ge heterostructures: An approach for integrated biosensors

Hatice Altug, Liza Carol Andrea Dunbar, Dordaneh Etezadi

Nanohole array surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors offer a promising platform for high-throughput label-free biosensing. Integrating nanohole arrays with group-IV semiconductor photodetectors could enable low-cost and disposable biosensors compatible t ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

The Chemistry of Neurodegeneration: Kinetic Data and Their Implications

We collected experimental kinetic rate constants for chemical processes responsible for the development and progress of neurodegeneration, focused on the enzymatic and non-enzymatic degradation of amine neurotransmitters and their reactive and neurotoxic m ...

Humana Press Inc2016

Membrane invagination induced by Shiga toxin B-subunit: from molecular structure to tube formation

Julian Charles Shillcock

The bacterial Shiga toxin is composed of an enzymatically active A-subunit, and a receptor-binding homopentameric B-subunit (STxB) that mediates intracellular toxin trafficking. Upon STxB-mediated binding to the glycolipid globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) at th ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Extension of least squares spectral resolution algorithm to high-resolution lipidomics data

Adrian Schmid

Lipidomics, which focuses on the global study of molecular lipids in biological systems, has been driven tremendously by technical advances in mass spectrometry (MS) instrumentation, particularly high-resolution MS. This requires powerful computational too ...

Elsevier2016

The SwissLipids knowledgebase for lipid biology

Lipids are a large and diverse group of biological molecules with roles in membrane formation, energy storage and signaling. Cellular lipidomes may contain tens of thousands of structures, a staggering degree of complexity whose significance is not yet fully understood. High-throughput mass spectrometry-based platforms provide a means to study this complexity, but the interpretation of lipidomic data and its integration with prior knowledge of lipid biology suffers from a lack of appropriate tools to manage

Oxford University Press2015

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Polycation Interactions with Zwitterionic Phospholipid Monolayers on Oil Nanodroplets Suspensions in Water (D2O) Probed by Sum Frequency Scattering

Sylvie Roke, Nikolay Smolentsev

2018

Label-free and charge-sensitive dynamic imaging of lipid membrane hydration on millisecond time scales

Sylvie Roke, Orly Bagunu Tarun

2018

MATHICSE Technical Report : Biomembrane modeling with Isogeometric Analysis

Alfio Quarteroni

MATHICSE2017

Product diversification in the sugarcane biorefinery through algae growth and supercritical CO 2 extraction: Thermal and economic analysis

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017