Border controls: Lipids control proteins and proteins control lipids

Computing with Lipids, Proteins, and Ions

Book Review it explores what elementary computations are easily im-One theme running throughout the book is the potential computational properties of dendrites. Dendrites have gained tremendous respect in recent years, as a Biophysics of Computation wealth of experimental evidence has shifted our view of By Christof Koch the " typical " dendritic tree from a passive structure that New York: Oxf...

Damage to Proteins by Peroxidized Lipids.

ExoCarta 2012: database of exosomal proteins, RNA and lipids

Exosomes are membraneous nanovesicles of endocytic origin released by most cell types from diverse organisms; they play a critical role in cell-cell communication. ExoCarta (http://www.exocarta.org) is a manually curated database of exosomal proteins, RNA and lipids. The database catalogs information from both published and unpublished exosomal studies. The mode of exosomal purification and cha...

Identification of self-lipids presented by CD1c and CD1d proteins.

The CD1 family consists of five proteins that are related to the peptide-presenting MHC class I family. T cells can recognize the presentation of both foreign and self-derived lipids on four CD1 family members. The identities of the self-lipids capable of stimulating autoreactive T cell responses remain elusive or controversial. Here, we employed mass spectrometry to analyze the lipid content o...

On a quantitative determination of antibodies to lipids and proteins.

The amount of precipitating antibodies in monospecific lipid- and protein antisera was determined by quantitative precipitation reactions according to the methods of Heidelberger and Kendall. Antisera were obtained by immunization of rabbits. Fragments of the thylakoid membrane from Antirrhinum chloroplasts were used as antigens for the binding of antibodies. These fragments had a diameter of 1...