Keyword

membrane fluidity

Description: A biophysical property describing the ease with which lipids and proteins move within a cell membrane’s lipid bilayer.

Primary topic: Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (48%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q6815129

OpenAlex ID: keywords/membrane-fluidity

Functional rafts in cell membranes

1997 · Kai Simons, Elina Ikonen · Nature · 9,753

The Fluid Mosaic Model of the Structure of Cell Membranes

1972 · S. J. Singer, Garth L. Nicolson · Science · 9,162

Polymer Vesicles

2002 · Dennis E. Discher, Adi Eisenberg · Science · 3,566

A surface glycoprotein modulating drug permeability in Chinese hamster ovary cell mutants

1976 · R.L. Juliano, V. Ling · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes · 3,296

Oxidative damage and mitochondrial decay in aging.

1994 · M K Shigenaga, T M Hagen, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2,054

The Envelope of Mycobacteria

1995 · Patrick J. Brennan, Hiroshi Nikaido · Annual Review of Biochemistry · 1,988

Fluidity parameters of lipid regions determined by fluorescence polarization

1978 · M. Shinitzky, Y. Barenholz · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Biomembranes · 1,875

Lipid polymorphism and the functional roles of lipids in biological membranes

1979 · P.R. Cullis, B. De Kruijff · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Biomembranes · 1,864

Brownian motion in biological membranes.

1975 · P G Saffman, M Delbrück · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1,774

The modification of mammalian membrane polyunsaturated fatty acid composition in relation to membrane fluidity and function

1984 · Christopher D. Stubbs, Anthony D. Smith · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Biomembranes · 1,618

Molecular motion in spin-labeled phospholipids and membranes

1971 · Harden M. McConnell, Wayne L. Hubbell · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1,600

Homeoviscous Adaptation—A Homeostatic Process that Regulates the Viscosity of Membrane Lipids in Escherichia coli

1974 · Michael Sinensky · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1,519

Cholesterol and the cell membrane

1985 · Philip L. Yeagle · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Biomembranes · 1,497

Vitamin E, antioxidant and nothing more

2007 · Maret G. Traber, Jeffrey Atkinson · Free Radical Biology and Medicine · 1,482

Membrane lipid composition and cellular function.

1985 · A A Spector, M A Yorek · Journal of Lipid Research · 1,480

Membrane lipid homeostasis in bacteria

2008 · Yong-Mei Zhang, Charles O. Rock · Nature Reviews Microbiology · 1,393

The function of sterols in membranes

1976 · R.A. Demel, B. De Kruyff · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Biomembranes · 1,342

A proteolytic pathway that controls the cholesterol content of membranes, cells, and blood

1999 · Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1,328

Thermal Adaptation in Biological Membranes: Is Homeoviscous Adaptation the Explanation?

1995 · J R Hazel · Annual Review of Physiology · 1,288

Distributional variations in marine crenarchaeotal membrane lipids: a new tool for reconstructing ancient sea water temperatures?

2002 · Stefan Schouten, Ellen C. Hopmans, et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1,273

Interactions of cyclic hydrocarbons with biological membranes.

1994 · J. Sikkema, J.A. de Bont, et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1,200

Membrane properties of living mammalian cells as studied by enzymatic hydrolysis of fluorogenic esters.

1966 · B Rotman, B W Papermaster · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1,137

Paradigm Shift of the Plasma Membrane Concept from the Two-Dimensional Continuum Fluid to the Partitioned Fluid: High-Speed Single-Molecule Tracking of Membrane Molecules

2005 · Akihiro Kusumi, Chieko Nakada, et al. · Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure · 1,122

Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Inflammatory Processes

2010 · Philip C. Calder · Nutrients · 1,109

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Plant sterols: biosynthesis, biological function and their importance to human nutrition

2000 · Vieno Piironen, David G Lindsay, et al. · Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture · 1,045

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Citation count: 605,300