Despite being extremely thin, cell membranes are made of two distinct layers—often called leaflets. While the two leaflets of man-made membranes are almost always the same, living membranes are ...

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Despite being extremely thin, cell membranes are made of two distinct layers – often called leaflets. While the two leaflets of man-made membranes* are almost always the same, living membranes ...

“This work challenges a major assumption of cell biology by showing that the plasma membrane, the flexible bilayer that surrounds the cell, can have drastically different phospholipid* abundances ...

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State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Non-ferrous Metals, Department of Polymeric Materials Engineering, School of Material Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of ...

Compelling evidence supports that ATP is released from cells through pannexins, a family of membrane proteins that form heptameric large-pore channels. However, the activation mechanisms that trigger ...