0 a substance such as a fat, oil, or wax that dissolves in alcohol but not in water and is an important part of living cells
1 a substance that is an important part of living cells, mainly in the form of fat or oil
Interestingly, all known tick salivary vasodilators reported to date are lipid derivatives.
Due to their geometry, cone- and inverted cone-shaped lipids create packing stresses within a bilayer.
Proteins can of course modulate the behavior of membrane lipids in diverse manners, and through a variety of types of interactions, both specific and non-specific.
Liposomes are lipid membrane particles that serve as vehicles or delivery systems for vaccine antigens.
The measured increase in the thickness of the embryos reflects an increase in the storage reserves, especially protein and lipid.
As described above, the endosperm of the mature grain is packed with storage polymers rich in carbohydrate, protein and lipid.
All the proteins are functional in both solubilizing lipids and binding with all appropriate receptor proteins, albeit with different efficiencies.
These nascent yolk precursors could become fused with each other to form a membrane-limited yolk platelet, which always enclosed lipid droplets.
