RSC – Faraday Discuss. latest articles- Seeing the invisible: XRF reveals lead distributions in coral organisms grown in the Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba) February 19, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5FD00024F, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Katrein Sauer, Maayan Needer, Ivo Zizak, Paul Zaslansky, Tali MassLead (Pb) contamination in marine ecosystems poses a significant ecological threat. Not much is known about its effects on coral reefs, which serve as vital […]Katrein Sauer
- Silylated peptides as building blocks for material synthesis using sol-gel polymerization February 19, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5FD00014A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Mehmet Baran Karakaplan, Vinay Shankar Tiwari, Omer Agazani, Cécile Echalier, Gilles Subra, Meital RechesThe bottom-up approach exploits simple building blocks to generate new materials with desired physical and chemical characteristics. Here, we combine two […]Mehmet Baran Karakaplan
- Does Plasma Membrane Transbilayer Asymmetry Coupled to Lipid Nanodomains Drive Fast Kinetics of FGF2 Membrane Translocation into the Extracellular Space? February 19, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4FD00208C, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Fabio Lolicato, Manpreet Kaur, Ana Marija Knez, Roberto Saleppico, Walter NickelFibroblast Growth Factor 2 (FGF2) is a potent mitogen secreted from mammalian cells through an unconventional secretory pathway. This process is mediated by direct […]Fabio Lolicato
- Investigating temperature influences on shell growth and microstructural variations in Bay scallops: Insights from multiscale microscopy February 19, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5FD00023H, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Benazir Khurshid, Arnaud Benchetrite, Lise Guichaoua, Nicolas Brodusch, Bryce D. Stewart, Roland Kroger, Raynald Gauvin, Martin Mallet, Réjean Tremblay, Natalie ReznikovScallops (order Pectinida) are well-known for robust and beautiful calcitic shells that protect them […]Benazir Khurshid
- Phosphatidylserine affinity for and flip-flop dependence on Ca2+ and Mg2+ ions February 18, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4FD00206G, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Preston P. Hymas, John ConboyCa2+ ions are believed to play a crucial role in regulating lipid membrane asymmetry by modulating the activity of flippases, floppases, and scramblases. Dysregulation of Ca2+ homeostasis, and subsequent loss...The […]Preston P. Hymas
- Silica biomineralization in plants alters the structure of lignin February 17, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5FD00011D, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Srinath Palakurthy, Michael Elbaum, Rivka ElbaumBiomineralization of silica is a major process in plants, which may contribute 3-10% of tissue dry weight. For reasons that remain unclear, plants containing silica are less sensitive to […]Srinath Palakurthy
- Surfactant-like peptide gels are based on cross- amyloid fibrils February 17, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4FD00190G, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Abhinaba Das, Ordy Gnewou, Xiaobing Zuo, Fengbin Wang, Vincent P. ConticelloSurfactant-like peptides, in which hydrophilic and hydrophobic residues are encoded within different domains in the peptide sequence, undergo facile self-assembly in aqueous solution to […]Abhinaba Das
- Detection Limits of Calcium by EELS TEM-EDX and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy for Biomineralization Studies February 17, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5FD00001G, PaperPeter Rez, Lothar Houben, Yu-Feng Meng, Assaf Gal, Zdravko Kochovski, Benedikt HaasTo investigate mechanisms of biomineral formation it is necessary to determine Ca concentrations in the vicinity of growing minerals at the highest spatial resolution. All techniques that use ionizing radiation...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal […]Peter Rez
- Influence of peptides chirality on their protein-triggered supramolecular hydrogelation February 15, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5FD00007F, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Shahaji Hanumantrao More, Tetiana Dorosh, Jean-Yves Runser, Alexis Bigo-Simon, Rachel Schurhammer, Vincent Ball, Leandro Jacomine, Marc Schmutz, Alain Chaumont, Pierre Schaaf, Loïc JierryMany articles describe the use of enzymes to induce the formation of […]Shahaji Hanumantrao More
- Exploring the temperature dependence of β-hairpin peptide self-assembly February 13, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5FD00018A, PaperTuan D Samdin, Xiaoyi Wang, Galit Fichman, Joel P SchneiderHerein, we study the role that hydrophobicity plays in the temperature-dependent self-assembly of a family of β-hairpin peptide amphiphiles through the lens of thermally folding a protein from its cold-denatured...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of […]Tuan D Samdin
- Immune cell activation produces locally scrambled foci of plasma membrane lipids February 11, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4FD00205A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Daryna Sputay, Milka Doktorova, Sze Ham Chan, Emma Guo, Hong-Yin Wang, Joseph Helmuth Lorent, Ilya Levental, Kandice LeventalMost eukaryotic cells maintain a large disparity in lipid compositions between the cytosolic and external leaflets of […]Daryna Sputay
- Effect of a scramblase activator upon scrambling and membrane domain formation in HEK293T cells. February 6, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4FD00211C, PaperShinako Kakuda, Erwin LondontbcThe content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of ChemistryShinako Kakuda
- Asymmetric membrane properties through a protein lens February 4, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4FD00199K, PaperJoseph Helmuth Lorent, Angela Cabrera-Jojo, Kandice Levental, Ilya Levental, Edward LymanPlasma membranes are asymmetric, with each monolayer presenting specific lipid compositions and biophysical properties. Transmembrane domains (TMDs) of single-pass transmembrane proteins (spTMP) have adapted their physico-chemical properties to these asymmetric...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society […]Joseph Helmuth Lorent
- The influence of higher order geometric terms on the asymmetry and dynamics of membranes February 3, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4FD00202D, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Jan Magnus Magnus Sischka, Ingo Nitschke, Axel VoigtWe consider membranes as fluid deformable surface and allow for higher order geometric terms in the bending energy. The evolution equations are derived and numerically solved using […]Jan Magnus Magnus Sischka
- Near-infrared responsive three-component supramolecular hydrogels of peptide, agarose and upconversion nanoparticles February 1, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4FD00203B, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Ivo Rosenbusch, Dominik Mählmann, Bart Jan RavooSelf-assembled, low molecular weight hydrogels are of particular interest for the development of responsive materials because they exhibit tunable viscoelasticity, high water content, and shear-thinning behavior, which make […]Ivo Rosenbusch
- Fabrication and characterization of phosphoinositide containing asymmetric vesicles in physiological salt conditions February 1, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4FD00191E, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Trevor A Paratore, Alonzo H Ross, Arne GerickePhosphoinositide (PIPs) lipids mediate a broad range of physiological functions by attracting proteins at specific time points to distinct cellular sites. Many of these processes are associated […]Trevor A Paratore
- Membrane potential fluctuations and water asymmetry on plasma cell and model lipid membranes: origins, implications and properties January 31, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4FD00197D, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Zhi Li, Iwona Swiderska, Lena Dalifoski, Seonwoo Lee, Nelson Alonso Correa-Rojas, David Roesel, Maksim Eremchev, Mischa Flór, Orly Tarun, Arianna Marchioro, Sylvie RokeMembrane potential fluctuations have previously been detected by second harmonic (SH) water […]Zhi Li
- Lipid-GPCR interactions in an asymmetric plasma membrane model January 30, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4FD00210E, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Jingjing Ji, Edward LymanWe report simulations and analysis of the A2A adenosine receptor in its fully active state, in two different membrane environments. The first is a model in which the lipids are...The content […]Jingjing Ji
- Unveiling the structure of protein-based hydrogels by overcoming cryo-SEM sample preparation challenges January 29, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4FD00204K, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Dimitra Katrantzi, Stuart Micklethwaite, Nicole S Hondow, Andrew P Brown, Lorna DouganProtein-based hydrogels have gained significant attention for their potential use in applications such as drug delivery and tissue engineering. Their internal structure is […]Dimitra Katrantzi
- Automated Descriptors for High-Throughput Screening of Peptide Self-Assembly January 28, 2025Faraday Discuss., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4FD00201F, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Raj Kumar Rajaram Baskaran, Alexander van Teijlingen, Tell TuttleWe present five automated descriptors: Aggregate Detection Index (ADI); Sheet Formation Index (SFI); Vesicle Formation Index (VFI); Tube Formation Index (TFI); and Fiber Formation Index (FFI), […]Raj Kumar Rajaram Baskaran
- Seeing the invisible: XRF reveals lead distributions in coral organisms grown in the Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba) February 19, 2025
