Glycolipids membranes

Rog T, Vattulainen I, Bunker A, Karttunen M. Glycolipid membranes through atomistic simulations effect of glucose and galac- 33. lose head groups on lipid bilayer properties. J. Phys. Chem. B 2007 111 10146-10154. 

Roberts, W. L., Kim, B. H. and Rosenberry, T. L. (1987) Differences in the glycolipid membrane anchors of bovine and human erythrocyte acetylcholinesterases. Proc. Natl Acad. Set USA, 84, 7817-21. 

A. K. Menon, R. T. Schwarz, S. Mayor G. A. Cross. Cell-free synthesis of glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol precursors for the glycolipid membrane anchor of Trypanosoma hrucei variant surface glycoproteins. Structural characterization of putative biosynthetic intermediates. J Biol Chem, 1990, 265, 9033-9042. 

Phospholipids are a major component of all biological membranes together with glycolipids and cholesterol. Due to their polar nature, i.e. hydrophilic head and hydrophobic tail, phospholipids form in water vesicles or liposomes. 

The presence and biological importance of oligosaccharide structures, usually as components of glycolipids and glycoproteins, in bacterial capsular and cell-wall polysaccharides, in mammalian cell membranes, in cytoplasm, and in extracellular fluids, are now well documented. They are important constituents in... 

GLYCOLIPIDS (GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS) ARE IMPORTANT IN NERVE TISSUES IN THE CELL MEMBRANE... 

Glycolipids are widely distributed in every tissue of the body, particularly in nervous tissue such as brain. They occur particularly in the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane, where they contribute to cell surface carbohydrates. 

Metastasis Abnormalities in the oligosaccharide chains of membrane glycoproteins and glycolipids are thought to be of importance... 

Biological membranes consist of lipids, proteins and also sugars, sometimes mutually bonded in the form of lipoproteins, glycolipids and glycoproteins. They are highly hydrated—water forms up to 25 per cent of the dry weight of the membrane. The content of the various protein and lipid components varies with the type of biological membrane. Thus, in... 

The plasma membrane contains a small amount of carbohydrate (2 to 10% of the mass of the membrane) on the outer surface. This carbohydrate is found attached to most of the protein molecules, forming glycoproteins, and to some of the phospholipid molecules (<10%), forming glycolipids. Consequently, the external surface of the cell has a carbohydrate coat, or glycocalyx. 

Compound lipids (phospholipids, sphingolipids, glycolipids, and cholesterol and its esters) that make part of the biomembrane are subject to a less active renew-al as compared with triacylglycerides. Their renewal is associated either with the restoration of an impaired portion of the membrane, or with the replacement of a defective molecule by a new one. 

Mattjus, P., Molotkovsky, J. G., Smaby, J. M. and Brown, R. E. (1999). A fluorescence resonance energy transfer approach for monitoring protein-mediated glycolipid transfer between vesicle membranes. Anal. Biochem. 268, 297-304. 

Glycolipids are carbohydrate-containing molecules, usually of sphingosine derivation, possessing a hydrophobic, fatty acid tail that embeds them into membrane bilayers. The hydrophilic... 

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