It was later determined that outer hair cell stereocilia are firmly embedded in the overlying tectorial membrane while inner hair cell stereocilia make only a tenuous connection. The outer hair cells ...

A picture of a biological membrane that includes compositional and phase heterogeneity is consistent with many observations on cells ... separated inner- and outer-leaflet lipids.

MlaA, which in the cell is bound to another outer membrane protein called a porin, removes outer leaflet phospholipids and functions like a membrane vacuum cleaner that maintains the important ...

"Since viruses cannot synthesize lipids, HIV 'steals' lipids from the plasma membrane of host cells," explains ... consists ...

Gram-negative cell walls are more complex. They have a thin peptidoglycan layer and an outer membrane (lipopolysaccharide) beyond the plasma membrane. The space between the plasma membrane and the ...