At the heart of a renaissance in lipid biochemistry, systems biology is being used to define the cellular lipome, build a comprehensive picture of metabolic interconnections, discover new ...

Simons, in particular, advocated the idea that a special type of nonrandom mixing of the membrane lipids is involved in the sorting process—namely, that lipid domains in the plane of the ...

"The database can serve as a tool for teachers and students studying these protein-lipid interactions, which is often an underdeveloped topic in biology and biochemistry courses," McShan says.