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Methyl-branched lipids promote the membrane adsorption of α-synuclein by enhancing shallow lipid-packing defects

1 Jan 2015Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

DOI : 10.1039/c5cp00244c

Authors

Matthias Garten, Coline Prévost, Clotilde Cadart, Romain Gautier, Luc Bousset, Ronald Melki, Patricia Bassereau, Stefano Vanni

Abstract

Reconstitution experiments on Giant Unilamellar Vesicles and Molecular Dynamics Simulations indicate that alpha-synuclein binds to neutral flat membranes in the presence of methyl-branched lipids.

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PATRICIA BASSEREAU

Directeur de recherche CNRS