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Handbook of Biological Physics
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Properties of giant vesicles
TL;DR: The specific properties of giant vesicles and their use as model systems for fluid interfaces and biomembranes are discussed and it has finally been possible to measure spontaneous curvatures of membranes for a variety of different systems.
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Silicon-Containing Polyphilic Bent-Core Molecules: The Importance of Nanosegregation for the Development of Chirality and Polar Order in Liquid Crystalline Phases Formed by Achiral Molecules
TL;DR: It is proposed that the siloxane sublayers stabilize a polar synclinic ferroelectric (SmC(s)P(F) structure, and the escape from a macroscopic polar order as well as steric effects leads to a deformation of the layers with formation of disordered microdomains, giving rise to optical isotropy.
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KtrAB, a new type of bacterial K(+)-uptake system from Vibrio alginolyticus.
TL;DR: Vibrio alginolyticus contained two adjacent genes, ktrA and ktrB, which encode a new type of bacterial K(+)-uptake system, suggesting that KtrAB is widespread.
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Dependence of plastoquinol diffusion on the shape, size, and density of integral thylakoid proteins.
TL;DR: There is a critical threshold of protein concentration, above which the long-range diffusion coefficient is zero, and the area occupied by proteins in vivo appears to be around this threshold, as determined from calculations assuming randomly distributed noninteracting proteins.
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Lipids, curvature, and nano‐medicine
TL;DR: It is shown how one can take advantage of the curvature-stress modulations brought about by specific molecular agents, such as fatty acids, lysolipids, and other amphiphilic solutes, to construct intelligent drug-delivery systems that function by enzymatic triggering via curvature.