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This review focuses on a versatile approach that combines the formation of solid-supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) by deposition of lipid vesicles with the adsorption of proteins and formation of ordered protein layers via specific interaction with ligands incorporated in the SLBs. This approach provides access to basic aspects of membrane biophysics, membrane-protein interactions, and molecular ordering in two dimensions. It may also constitute a strategy for the design of biofunctional surfaces at the nanoscale. Biological membranes play key roles in cell life, acting as permeability barriers and privileged sites of communication between the inside and outside of cellular worlds. These highly complex and dynamic assemblies, only a few nanometers thick, consist of two main components: a twodimensional space made of lipid molecules held together by hydrophobic interactions and self-assembled as a continuous bilayer; and proteins embedded within the membrane or attached to it. Our current knowledge of the molecular processes occurring at biological membranes is mainly based on studies performed on models of biological membranes, including liposomes and giant vesicles in solution, lipi

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Author

Ralf P Richter; Josephine Lai Kee Him; Alain Brisson

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1369-7021)

Published

2003

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)