September 19, 2006 Biological Membranes

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Required Reading:

Textbook: Alberts et al (2002) Molecular Biology of the Cell pp. 583 - 613.

Oesterhelt et al (2000) Unfolding Pathways of Individual Bacteriorhodopsins. Science 288: 143-146.

Douglass, & Vale (2005) Single-Molecule Microscopy Reveals Plasma Membrane Microdomains Created by Protein-Protein Networks that Exclude or Trap Signaling Molecules in T Cells. Cell 121: 937-950.

McMahon & Gallop (2005) Membrane curvature and mechanisms of dynamic membrane remodeling. Nature 438: 590-596.

From the MBOC CD: Features 10.1 — 10.6. Videos of membrane manipulations, structures of membrane proteins, etc...