Institute of Cytology

The Effect of Media, Conditioned by Serratia proteamaculans and Enriched with ShlA Toxin, on the Permeability of Lipid Bilayers, Mimicking the Membranes of Epithelial Cells HeLa and Caco-2

Abstract— In this work we investigated the pore-forming activity of ShlA toxin from Serratia proteamaculans in lipid bilayers modelling the membranes of epithelial cells HeLa and Caco-2 and assessed the role of CaCl2 in its modification. It was found that the addition of conditio...

Molecular Foundations of the IMH Model: The V→U Membrane Actuator

The Ionic-Mechano-Hydraulic (IMH) model of nerve conduction establishes that the action potential is a coupled ionic-hydraulic phase transition in which electrical events are causally secondary to a propagating pressure wave.The present paper identifies and formalises the element...