From lipid membranes to protein assemblies, the topics in this volume cover the interface between biology, chemistry, and physics as related to self-assembling colloidal systems.

Biocolloids: American Chemical Society Meeting Anaheim (USA), 2004

What's in a Biocolloid

D. Danino, D. Harries, S. Wrenn

1. Assembly of Clathrin Baskets

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Ralph Nossal

2. Ring Polymers of Tubulin Induced by Binding of Natural Antimitotic Peptides

9

(8)

Dan L. Sackett

3. Studying Spatial Distributions of Influenza Hemagglutinin on the Plasma Membrane of Fibroblasts: A Work in Progress

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(8)

Joshua Zimmerberg, Mukesh Kumar, Anil Verma, Jane Farrington, Michael Roth, Anne Kenworthy, Samuel T. Hess

4. Membrane Cholesterol and the Formation of Cholesterol Domains in the Pathogenesis of Cardiovascular Disease

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(14)

Gregory M. Troup, Yi Xie, Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia, Yong Huang, Terry Kirk, Francine Hanley, Thomas N. Tulenko

5. Alteration of Lipid Membrane Rigidity by Cholesterol and Its Metabolic Precursors

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(12)

Horia I. Petrache, Daniel Harries, V. Adrian Parsegian

6. Modeling the Electrostatics and Size Effect within a Crowded Bioenvironment

51

(8)

Zhidong Li, Jianzhong Wu

7. Stimulus Dependent Redistribution of Membrane Raft Cholesterol in Human Platelets

59

(14)

Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia, Richard J. Schimmel, Cheryl Gretzula

8. Interaction of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids with Cholesterol: A Role in Lipid Raft Phase Separation

73

(12)

Stephen R. Wassail, Saame Raza Shaikh, Michael R. Brzustowicz, Vadim Cherezov, Rafat A. Siddiqui, Martin Caffrey, William Stillwell

9. Domain Size and Fluctuations at Domain Interfaces in Lipid Mixtures

85

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Heiko M. Seeger, Matthias Fidorra, Thomas Heimburg

10. Probing the Interdigitated Phase of a DPPC Lipid Bilayer by Micropipette Aspiration

97

(26)

Hung V. Ly, Marjorie L. Longo

11. Spontaneously Forming Unilamellar Phospholipid Vesicles

123

(12)

Baohua Yue, Chien-Yueh Huang, Mu-Ping Nieh, Charles J. Glinka, John Katsaras

12. Structural Phase Behavior of High-Concentration, Alignable Biomimetic Bicelle Mixtures

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Mu-Ping Nieh, V.A. Raghunathan, Charles J. Glinka, Thad Harroun, John Katsaras

13. Calcium-Alginate Nanoparticles Formed by Reverse Microemulsion as Gene Carriers

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Jin-Oh You, Ching-An Peng

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