New paper from my group! We show that membrane surface hydrophobicity, driven by lipid packing defects, can be just as important, and possibly even more important, than surface charge in governing alpha-synuclein binding.

Here is the open-access link:

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Folks, this is Biophysics Week! To honor the occasion, the Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup is organizing a webinar tomorrow, Tuesday March 25, at 11am EDT. If you're not yet registered, do so now! Will be fun! 🧪

Registration link is here:
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Some very clever and interesting membrane biophysicists (and also me) are doing a little webinar on... well, membrane biophysics of today and tomorrow.

Check it out if you have time!

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It's known that anionic lipid charge enhances alpha-synuclein's ability to bind membranes. But did you know that alpha-synuclein can preferentially bind to neutral membranes when they are full of packing defects?

Read about it in our latest preprint!