The first volume of the Handbook deals with the amazing world of biomembranes and lipid bilayers. Part A describes all aspects related to the morphology of these membranes, beginning with the complex architecture of biomembranes, continues with a description of the bizarre morphology of lipid bilayers and concludes with technological applications of these membranes. The first two chapters deal with biomembranes, providing an introduction to the membranes of eucaryotes and a description of the evolution of membranes. The following chapters are concerned with different aspects of lipids including the physical properties of model membranes composed of lipid-protein mixtures, lateral
phase separation of lipids and proteins and measurement of lipid-protein bilayer diffusion. Other chapters deal with the flexibility of fluid bilayers, the closure of bilayers into vesicles which attain a large variety of different shapes, and applications of lipid vesicles and liposomes.
Author(s): R. Lipowsky, E. Sackmann (Eds.)
Publisher: Elsevier
Year: 1995
Language: English
Pages: 536
City: Amsterdam
General Preface
Preface to Volume 1A
Contents of Volume 1A
General Contents
Contributors of Volume 1A
Chapters
1. Biological Membranes Architecture and Function
2. The Evolution of Membranes
3. Polymorphism of Lipid-Water Systems
4. Phospholipid Monolayers
5. Physical Basis of Self-Organization and Function of Membranes:
6. Lateral Diffusion in Membranes
7. Molecular Theory of Chain Packing, Elasticity and Lipid-Protein Interaction in Lipid Bilayers
8. Morphology of Vesicles
9. Material Transport Across Permeability Barriers by Means of Lipid
10. Applications of Liposomes
