When a cell receives a message from outside, it generates a molecule called cyclic AMP (cAMP) to relay this message. To ...

The plasma membrane is the defining feature of the cell, separating its interior from the exterior space. It controls exchange and communication processes between the cell and its environment. The ...

Collaboration between researchers at the University of Geneva, Institut de biologie structurale de Grenoble, and the University of Fribourg has shown how lipids and proteins in cell membranes react in ...

Caveolae, submicroscopic pits of the plasma membrane, consist of caveolin membrane proteins and cytoplasmic cavin proteins. Caveolae can bud from the plasma membrane, fuse with early endosomes and ...

In previous equilibrium binding studies, Dictyostelium discoideum plasma membranes have been shown to bind actin and to recruit actin into filaments at the membrane surface. However, little is known ...

A procedure is described whereby highly purified fractions of plasma membrane and tonoplast were isolated from hypocotyls of dark-grown soybean (Glycine max L. var Wayne) by the technique of ...