Molecular Dynamics of Biomembranes

Abstract

Mechanisms Involved in Co- and Posttranslational Protein Transport.- Glycosylation Mapping of the Interaction Between Topogenic Sequences and the ER Translocase.- The Various Roles of Invariant Chain in the Act of Antigen Presentation.- Progress Towards the Identification of Secretion Signals in a Protein Transported in a Folded State Across a Lipid Bilayer.- E. coli Preprotein Translocase: a 6 Stroke Engine with 2 Fuels and 2 Piston Rods.- The Tol/PAL and TonB Systems: two Envelope-Spanning Protein Complexes Involved in Colicin Import in E. coli.- In vitro Assembly of Outer Membrane Protein PhoE of E. coli.- Protein Folding the Cell: the Role of Molecular Chaperons.- Thermodynamics of the Membrane Insertion Process of the Ml3 Procoat Protein, a Lipid Bilayer Traversing Protein Comprising a Leader Sequence.- Lipid-Protein Interactions in Chloroplast Protein Import.- Protein Transport Into and Across the Mitochondrial Outer Membrane: Recognition, Insertion and Translocation of Preproteins.- Protein Import Across the Inner Mitochondrial Membrane.- How Mitochondria Recognize and Bind Precursor Proteins at the Surface.- The General Features of Membrane Traffic During Endocytosis in Polarized and Non-Polarized Cells.- Mitotic Fragmentation of the Golgi Apparatus.- Kinetic Measurements of Fusion Between Vesicles Derived from the Endoplasmic Reticulum.- The Sorting of Membrane Proteins During the Formation of ER-Derived Transport Vesicles.- Isolation and Characterization of Yeast Mutants Defective in the Dolichol Pathway for N-Glycosylation.- The Importance of Lipid-Protein Interactions in Signal Transduction Through the Calcium-Phospholipid Second Messenger System.- Covalently Attached Lipid Bilayers on Planar Waveguides for Measuring Protein Binding to Functionalized Membranes.- The Effect of Sterol Side Chain Conformation on Lateral Lipid Domain Formation in Monolayer Membranes.- The Kinetics, Specificities and Structural Features of Lipases.- Phospholipases A2 and the Production of Bioactive Lipids.- Phospholipases in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.- Functional Analysis of Phosphatidylinositol Tranfer Protiens.- Phosphatidylcholine Biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Effects on Regulation of Phospholipid Synthesis and Respiratory Competence.- Resynthesis of the Cell Surface Pool of Phosphatidylinositol.- The GlcNac-PI de-N-Acetylase of Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) Biosynthesis in Trypanosoma brucei.- Phospholipid Flippases: Neither Exclusively, nor only Involved in Maintaining Membrane Phospholipid Asymmetry.- A New Efficient Strategy to Reconstitute Membrane Proteins into Liposomes: Application to the Study of Ca++-ATPases.- Interaction of Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Proteins with Phospholipid Vesicles.