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Introduction to biological membranes; methodologies | General description of cell membrane models and their components, lipids and proteins | ![]() |
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The structures and properties of membrane lipids | Description of structures of major mammalian lipids and their physical and chemical properties | ![]() |
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Lipid metabolism and transport | Description of the biosynthesis of major membrane lipids, different mechanisms of their transport to target membranes, and different lipid compositions of various organelle membranes. | ![]() |
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Membrane structures and dynamics; lipid rafts; model membranes | General description of cellular signaling mechanisms with an emphasis on the role of proteins as binary signaling switches | ![]() |
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Membrane proteins: structure and function | Description of cell signaling by lipids, including phosphoinositides | ![]() |
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Membrane proteins: targeting and regulation | Description of lipid signaling enzymes, including phospholipases, lipid kinases, lipid phosphatases | ![]() |
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Membrane-binding proteins and lipid-binding domains | Description of cell signaling by phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)-bisphosphate and eicosanoids | ![]() |
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Lipid modification of proteins | ![]() |
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Lipid signaling: phosphoinositide signaling | General description of membrane proteins, including integral and peripheral membrane proteins and the mechanisms by which cellular proteins are recruited to the membranes | ![]() |
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Lipid signaling: other lipid signaling and cell-cell communication | Description of the regulation of membrane interaction of proteins by various lipidation | ![]() |
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Membrane trafficking 1: endocytosis and membrane fission | Description of the formation of membrane domains, including lipid rafts, and its potential roles in cell regulation | ![]() |
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Membrane trafficking 2: exocytosis and membrane fusion | ![]() |
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Membrane remodeling and cytoskeletons | Membrane remodeling and cytoskeletons | ![]() |
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Lipids in health and disease; membrane biotechnology | Membrane remodeling and cytoskeletons | ![]() |
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Lipids in health and disease; membrane biotechnology | ![]() |