title: Asymmetric lipid membranes: towards more realistic model systems.
abstract: Despite the ubiquity of transbilayer asymmetry in natural cell membranes, the vast majority of existing research has utilized chemically well-defined symmetric liposomes, where the inner and outer bilayer leaflets have the same composition. Here, we review various aspects of asymmetry in nature and in model systems in anticipation for the next phase of model membrane studies.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Biophysics Division, University of Graz, NAWI Graz, Humboldtstr 50/III, Graz, 8010, Austria. drew.marquardt@uni-graz.at.|BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, 8010, Austria. drew.marquardt@uni-graz.at.
authors.forename: Drew
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marquardt
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Biophysics Division, University of Graz, NAWI Graz, Humboldtstr 50/III, Graz, 8010, Austria. barbara.geier@uni-graz.at.|BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, 8010, Austria. barbara.geier@uni-graz.at.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Geier
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Biophysics Division, University of Graz, NAWI Graz, Humboldtstr 50/III, Graz, 8010, Austria. georg.pabst@uni-graz.at.|BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, 8010, Austria. georg.pabst@uni-graz.at.
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pabst