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Piccinini A, Kohlbrecher J, Moussaoui D, Winter A, Prévost S. Effect of cardiolipin on the lamellarity and elongation of liposomes hydrated in PBS. J Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 669:844-855. [PMID: 38749223 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.04.211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Revised: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/27/2024]
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Lamellarity and shape are important factors in the formation of vesicles and determine their role in biological systems and pharmaceutical applications. Cardiolipin (CL) is a major lipid in many biological membranes and exerts a great influence on their structural organization due to its particular structure and physico-chemical properties. Here, we used small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering to study the effects of CL with different acyl chain lengths and saturations (CL14:0, CL18:1, CL18:2) on vesicle morphology and lamellarity in membrane models containing mixtures of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine with different acyl chain lengths and saturations (C14:0 and C 18:1). Measurements were performed in the presence of Phosphate Buffer Saline (PBS), at 37°C, to better reflect physiological conditions, which resulted in strong effects on vesicle morphology, depending on the type and amount of CL used. The presence of small quantities of CL (from 2.5%) reduced inter-membrane correlations and increased perturbation of the membrane, an effect which is enhanced in the presence of matched shorter saturated acyl chains, and mainly unilamellar vesicles (ULV) are formed. In extruded vesicles, employed for SANS experiments, flattened vesicles are observed partly due to the hypertonic effect of PBS, but also influenced by the type of CL added. Our experimental data from SAXS and SANS revealed a strong dependence on CL content in shaping the membrane microstructure, with an apparent optimum in the PC:CL mixture in terms of promoting reduced correlations, preferred curvature and elongation. However, the use of PBS caused distinct differences from previously published studies in water in terms of vesicle shape, and highlights the need to investigate vesicle formation under physiological conditions in order to be able to draw conclusions about membrane formation in biological systems.
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- Alice Piccinini
- Institut Laue-Langevin - The European Neutron Source, 38042 Grenoble, France; School of Life Sciences, Keele University, ST55BG Staffordshire, United Kingdom; Dept. of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine Università degli Studi di Milano, 20054 Milan, Italy
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- School of Life Sciences, Keele University, ST55BG Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
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- Institut Laue-Langevin - The European Neutron Source, 38042 Grenoble, France
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Ivankov O, Kondela T, Dushanov EB, Ermakova EV, Murugova TN, Soloviov D, Kuklin AI, Kučerka N. Cholesterol and melatonin regulated membrane fluidity does not affect the membrane breakage triggered by amyloid-beta peptide. Biophys Chem 2023; 298:107023. [PMID: 37148823 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2023.107023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2023] [Revised: 04/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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We have studied by means of small angle neutron scattering and diffraction, and molecular dynamics simulations the effect of lipid membrane fluidity on the amyloid-beta peptide interactions with the membrane. These interactions have been discovered previously to trigger the reorganization of model membranes between unilamellar vesicles and planar membranes (bicelle-like structures) during the lipid phase transition. The morphology changes were taking place in rigid membranes prepared of fully saturated lipids and were proposed to play a role in the onset of amyloid related disorders. We show in this study that the replacement of fully saturated lipids by more fluid mono-unsaturated lipids eliminates the mentioned morphology changes, most likely due to the absence of phase transition within the temperature range investigated. We have therefore controlled the membrane rigidity also while ensuring the presence of membrane phase transition within the biologically relevant temperatures. It was done by the addition of melatonin and/or cholesterol to the initial membranes made of saturated lipids. Small angle neutron scattering experiments performed over a range of cholesterol and melatonin concentrations show their distinctive effects on the local membrane structure only. The cholesterol for example affects the membrane curvature such that spontaneously formed unilamellar vesicles are of much larger sizes than those formed by the neat lipid membranes or membranes with melatonin added. The temperature dependent experiments, however, reveal no influence on the previously discovered membrane breakage whether cholesterol or melatonin have been added.
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- O Ivankov
- Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141980, Russia.
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- Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Bratislava, Bratislava 842 48, Slovakia
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- Laboratory of Radiation Biology, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141980, Russia
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- Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141980, Russia
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- Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141980, Russia
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Hamburg Outstation c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141980, Russia; Research Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-related Diseases, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny 141701, Russia
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- Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141980, Russia; Department of Physical Chemistry of Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University Bratislava, Bratislava SK-832 32, Slovakia.
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Kohlbrecher J, Breßler I. Updates in SASfit for fitting analytical expressions and numerical models to small-angle scattering patterns. J Appl Crystallogr 2022; 55:1677-1688. [PMID: 36570652 PMCID: PMC9721323 DOI: 10.1107/s1600576722009037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Small-angle scattering is an increasingly common method for characterizing particle ensembles in a wide variety of sample types and for diverse areas of application. SASfit has been one of the most comprehensive and flexible curve-fitting programs for decades, with many specialized tools for various fields. Here, a selection of enhancements and additions to the SASfit program are presented that may be of great benefit to interested and advanced users alike: (a) further development of the technical basis of the program, such as new numerical algorithms currently in use, a continuous integration practice for automated building and packaging of the software, and upgrades on the plug-in system for easier adoption by third-party developers; (b) a selection of new form factors for anisotropic scattering patterns and updates to existing form factors to account for multiple scattering effects; (c) a new type of a very flexible distribution called metalog [Keelin (2016). Decis. Anal. 13, 243-277], and regularization techniques such as the expectation-maximization method [Dempster et al. (1977). J. R. Stat. Soc. Ser. B (Methodological), 39, 1-22; Richardson (1972) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62, 55; Lucy (1974). Astron. J. 79, 745; Lucy (1994). Astron. Astrophys. 289, 983-994], which is compared with fits of analytical size distributions via the non-linear least-squares method; and (d) new structure factors, especially for ordered nano- and meso-scaled material systems, as well as the Ornstein-Zernike solver for numerical determination of particle interactions and the resulting structure factor when no analytical solution is available, with the aim of incorporating its effects into the small-angle scattering intensity model used for fitting with SASfit.
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- Joachim Kohlbrecher
- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, 12205 Berlin, Germany
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Isabettini S, Stucki S, Massabni S, Baumgartner ME, Reckey PQ, Kohlbrecher J, Ishikawa T, Windhab EJ, Fischer P, Kuster S. Development of Smart Optical Gels with Highly Magnetically Responsive Bicelles. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2018; 10:8926-8936. [PMID: 29460620 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b17134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Hydrogels delivering on-demand tailorable optical properties are formidable smart materials with promising perspectives in numerous fields, including the development of modern sensors and switches, the essential quality criterion being a defined and readily measured response to environmental changes. Lanthanide ion (Ln3+)-chelating bicelles are interesting building blocks for such materials because of their magnetic responsive nature. Imbedding these phospholipid-based nanodiscs in a magnetically aligned state in gelatin permits an orientation-dependent retardation of polarized light. The resulting tailorable anisotropy gives the gel a well-defined optical signature observed as a birefringence signal. These phenomena were only reported for a single bicelle-gelatin pair and required high magnetic field strengths of 8 T. Herein, we demonstrate the versatility and enhance the viability of this technology with a new generation of aminocholesterol (Chol-NH2)-doped bicelles imbedded in two different types of gelatin. The highly magnetically responsive nature of the bicelles allowed to gel the anisotropy at commercially viable magnetic field strengths between 1 and 3 T. Thermoreversible gels with a unique optical signature were generated by exposing the system to various temperature conditions and external magnetic field strengths. The resulting optical properties were a signature of the gel's environmental history, effectively acting as a sensor. Solutions containing the bicelles simultaneously aligning parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field directions were obtained by mixing samples chelating Tm3+ and Dy3+. These systems were successfully gelled, providing a material with two distinct temperature-dependent optical characteristics. The high degree of tunability in the magnetic response of the bicelles enables encryption of the gel's optical properties. The proposed gels are viable candidates for temperature tracking of sensitive goods and provide numerous perspectives for future development of tomorrow's smart materials and technologies.
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- Stéphane Isabettini
- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering , ETH Zürich , Schmelzbergstrasse 7 , 8092 Zurich , Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering , ETH Zürich , Schmelzbergstrasse 7 , 8092 Zurich , Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering , ETH Zürich , Schmelzbergstrasse 7 , 8092 Zurich , Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering , ETH Zürich , Schmelzbergstrasse 7 , 8092 Zurich , Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering , ETH Zürich , Schmelzbergstrasse 7 , 8092 Zurich , Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering , ETH Zürich , Schmelzbergstrasse 7 , 8092 Zurich , Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering , ETH Zürich , Schmelzbergstrasse 7 , 8092 Zurich , Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering , ETH Zürich , Schmelzbergstrasse 7 , 8092 Zurich , Switzerland
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Isabettini S, Massabni S, Hodzic A, Durovic D, Kohlbrecher J, Ishikawa T, Fischer P, Windhab EJ, Walde P, Kuster S. Molecular engineering of lanthanide ion chelating phospholipids generating assemblies with a switched magnetic susceptibility. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 19:20991-21002. [PMID: 28745755 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp03994h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Lanthanide ion (Ln3+) chelating amphiphiles are powerful molecules for tailoring the magnetic response of polymolecular assemblies. Mixtures of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) and 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-ethanolamine-diethylene triaminepentaacetate (DMPE-DTPA) complexed to Ln3+ deliver highly magnetically responsive bicelles. Their magnetic properties are readily tuned by changing the bicellar size or the magnetic susceptibility Δχ of the bilayer lipids. The former technique is intrinsically bound to the region of the phase diagram guarantying the formation of bicelles. Methods aiming towards manipulating the Δχ of the bilayer are comparatively more robust, flexible and lacking. Herein, we synthesized a new Ln3+ chelating phospholipid using glutamic acid as a backbone: DMPE-Glu-DTPA. The chelate polyhedron was specifically engineered to alter the Δχ, whilst remaining geometrically similar to DMPE-DTPA. Planar asymmetric assemblies hundreds of nanometers in size were achieved presenting unprecedented magnetic alignments. The DMPE-Glu-DTPA/Ln3+ complex switched the Δχ, achieving perpendicular alignment of assemblies containing Dy3+ and parallel alignment of those containing Tm3+. Moreover, samples with chelated Yb3+ were more alignable than the Tm3+ chelating counterparts. Such a possibility has never been demonstrated for planar Ln3+ chelating polymolecular assemblies. The physico-chemical properties of these novel assemblies were further studied by monitoring the alignment behavior at different temperatures and by including 16 mol% of cholesterol (Chol-OH) in the phospholipid bilayer. The DMPE-Glu-DTPA/Ln3+ complex and the resulting assemblies are promising candidates for applications in numerous fields including pharmaceutical technologies, structural characterization of membrane biomolecules by NMR spectroscopy, as contrasting agents for magnetic resonance imaging, and for the development of smart optical gels.
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- Stéphane Isabettini
- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Schmelzbergstrasse 7, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Isabettini S, Liebi M, Kohlbrecher J, Ishikawa T, Fischer P, Windhab EJ, Walde P, Kuster S. Mastering the magnetic susceptibility of magnetically responsive bicelles with 3β-amino-5-cholestene and complexed lanthanide ions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 19:10820-10824. [PMID: 28401210 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp01025g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The magnetic susceptibility of lanthanide-chelating bicelles was selectively enhanced by introducing 3β-amino-5-cholestene (aminocholesterol, Chol-NH2) in the bilayer. Unprecedented magnetic alignment of the bicelles was achieved without altering their size. An aminocholesterol conjugate (Chol-C2OC2-NH2), in combination with different lanthanide ions, offers the possibility of fine-tuning the bicelle's magnetic susceptibility.
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- Stéphane Isabettini
- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Schmelzbergstrasse 7, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Isabettini S, Baumgartner ME, Fischer P, Windhab EJ, Liebi M, Kuster S. Fabrication Procedures and Birefringence Measurements for Designing Magnetically Responsive Lanthanide Ion Chelating Phospholipid Assemblies. J Vis Exp 2018. [PMID: 29364235 DOI: 10.3791/56812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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Bicelles are tunable disk-like polymolecular assemblies formed from a large variety of lipid mixtures. Applications range from membrane protein structural studies by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to nanotechnological developments including the formation of optically active and magnetically switchable gels. Such technologies require high control of the assembly size, magnetic response and thermal resistance. Mixtures of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) and its lanthanide ion (Ln3+) chelating phospholipid conjugate, 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-ethanolamine-diethylene triaminepentaacetate (DMPE-DTPA), assemble into highly magnetically responsive assemblies such as DMPC/DMPE-DTPA/Ln3+ (molar ratio 4:1:1) bicelles. Introduction of cholesterol (Chol-OH) and steroid derivatives in the bilayer results in another set of assemblies offering unique physico-chemical properties. For a given lipid composition, the magnetic alignability is proportional to the bicelle size. The complexation of Ln3+ results in unprecedented magnetic responses in terms of both magnitude and alignment direction. The thermo-reversible collapse of the disk-like structures into vesicles upon heating allows tailoring of the assemblies' dimensions by extrusion through membrane filters with defined pore sizes. The magnetically alignable bicelles are regenerated by cooling to 5 °C, resulting in assembly dimensions defined by the vesicle precursors. Herein, this fabrication procedure is explained and the magnetic alignability of the assemblies is quantified by birefringence measurements under a 5.5 T magnetic field. The birefringence signal, originating from the phospholipid bilayer, further enables monitoring of polymolecular changes occurring in the bilayer. This simple technique is complementary to NMR experiments that are commonly employed to characterize bicelles.
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
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Isabettini S, Massabni S, Kohlbrecher J, Schuler LD, Walde P, Sturm M, Windhab EJ, Fischer P, Kuster S. Understanding the Enhanced Magnetic Response of Aminocholesterol Doped Lanthanide-Ion-Chelating Phospholipid Bicelles. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:8533-8544. [PMID: 28759249 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b01370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Cholesterol (Chol-OH) and its conjugates are powerful molecules for engineering the physicochemical and magnetic properties of phospholipid bilayers in bicelles. Introduction of aminocholesterol (3β-amino-5-cholestene, Chol-NH2) in bicelles composed of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) and the thulium-ion-chelating phospholipid 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-ethanolamine-diethylene triaminepentaacetate (DMPE-DTPA/Tm3+) results in unprecedented high magnetic alignments by selectively tuning the magnetic susceptibility Δχ of the bilayer. However, little is known on the underlying mechanisms behind the magnetic response and, more generally, on the physicochemical forces governing a Chol-NH2 doped DMPC bilayer. We tackled this shortcoming with a multiscale bottom-up comparative investigation of Chol-OH and Chol-NH2 mixed with DMPC. First, simplified monolayer models on a Langmuir trough were employed to compare the two steroid molecules at various contents in DMPC. In a second step, a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation allowed for a more representative model of the bicelle bilayer while monitoring the amphiphiles and their interactions on the molecular level. In a final step, we moved away from the models and investigated the effect of temperature on the structure and magnetic alignment of Chol-NH2 doped bicelles by SANS. The DMPC/steroid monolayer studies showed that Chol-OH induces a larger condensation effect than Chol-NH2 at steroid contents of 16 and 20 mol %. However, this tendency was inversed at steroid contents of 10, 30, and 40 mol %. Although the MD simulation with 16 mol % steroid revealed that both compounds induce a liquid-ordered state in DMPC, the bilayer containing Chol-NH2 was much less ordered than the analogous system containing Chol-OH. Chol-NH2 underwent significantly more hydrogen bonding interactions with neighboring DMPC lipids than Chol-OH. It seems that, by altering the dynamics of the hydrophilic environment of the bicelle, Chol-NH2 changes the crystal field and angle of the phospholipid-lanthanide DMPE-DTPA/Tm3+ complex. These parameters largely determine the magnetic susceptibility Δχ of the complex, explaining the SANS results, which show significant differences in magnetic alignment of the steroid doped bicelles. Highly magnetically alignable DMPC/Chol-NH2/DMPE-DTPA/Tm3+ (molar ratio 16:4:5:5) bicelles were achieved up to temperatures of 35 °C before a thermoreversible rearrangement into nonalignable vesicles occurred. The results confirm the potential of Chol-NH2 doped bicelles to act as building blocks for the development of the magnetically responsive soft materials of tomorrow.
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- Stéphane Isabettini
- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zürich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zürich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institute , 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Department of Materials, ETH Zürich , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 5, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces , Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zürich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zürich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zürich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Isabettini S, Baumgartner ME, Reckey PQ, Kohlbrecher J, Ishikawa T, Fischer P, Windhab EJ, Kuster S. Methods for Generating Highly Magnetically Responsive Lanthanide-Chelating Phospholipid Polymolecular Assemblies. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:6363-6371. [PMID: 28594186 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Mixtures of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) and its lanthanide ion (Ln3+) chelating phospholipid conjugate, 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-ethanolamine-diethylene triaminepentaacetate (DMPE-DTPA), assemble into highly magnetically responsive polymolecular assemblies such as DMPC/DMPE-DTPA/Ln3+ (molar ratio 4:1:1) bicelles. Their geometry and magnetic alignability is enhanced by introducing cholesterol into the bilayer in DMPC/Cholesterol/DMPE-DTPA/Ln3+ (molar ratio 16:4:5:5). However, the reported fabrication procedures remain tedious and limit the generation of highly magnetically alignable species. Herein, a simplified procedure where freeze thawing cycles and extrusion are replaced by gentle heating and cooling cycles for the hydration of the dry lipid film was developed. Heating above the phase transition temperature Tm of the lipids composing the bilayer before cooling back below the Tm was essential to guarantee successful formation of the polymolecular assemblies composed of DMPC/DMPE-DTPA/Ln3+ (molar ratio 4:1:1). Planar polymolecular assemblies in the size range of hundreds of nanometers are achieved and deliver unprecedented gains in magnetic response. The proposed heating and cooling procedure further allowed to regenerate the highly magnetically alignable DMPC/Cholesterol/DMPE-DTPA/Ln3+ (molar ratio 16:4:5:5) species after storage for one month frozen at -18 °C. The simplicity and viability of the proposed fabrication procedure offers a new set of highly magnetically responsive lanthanide ion chelating phospholipid polymolecular assemblies as building blocks for the smart soft materials of tomorrow.
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- Stéphane Isabettini
- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Isabettini S, Liebi M, Kohlbrecher J, Ishikawa T, Windhab EJ, Fischer P, Walde P, Kuster S. Tailoring Bicelle Morphology and Thermal Stability with Lanthanide-Chelating Cholesterol Conjugates. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:9005-9014. [PMID: 27529644 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b01968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Bicelles composed of DMPC and phospholipids capable of chelating lanthanide ions, such as 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-ethanolamine-diethylene triaminepentaacetate (DMPE-DTPA), are highly tunable magnetically responsive soft materials. Further doping of these systems with cholesterol-DTPA conjugates complexed to a lanthanide ion considerably enhances the bicelle's size and magnetic alignability. The high value of these cholesterol conjugates for bicelle design remains largely unexplored. Herein, we examine how molecular structural alterations within the cholesterol-DTPA conjugates lead to contrasting self-assembled polymolecular aggregate structures when incorporated into DMPC/DMPE-DTPA/Tm(3+) bilayers. The nature of the linker connecting the DTPA-chelating moiety to the sterol backbone is examined by synthesizing conjugates of various linker lengths and polarities. The incorporation of these compounds within the bilayer results in polymolecular aggregate geometries of higher curvature. The increasing degrees of freedom for conformational changes conveyed to the chelator headgroup with increasing linker atomic length reduce the cholesterol-DTPA conjugate's critical packing parameter. Consequently, an inverse correlation between the number of carbon atoms in the linker and the bicelle radius is established. The introduction of polarity into the carbon chain of the linker did not cause major changes in the polymolecular aggregate architecture. Under specific conditions, the additives permit the formation of remarkably temperature-resistant bicelles. The versatility of design offered by these amphiphiles gives rise to new and viable tools for the growing field of magnetically responsive soft materials.
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- Stéphane Isabettini
- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Materials, ETH Zurich , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 5, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Zhao J, Bolisetty S, Isabettini S, Kohlbrecher J, Adamcik J, Fischer P, Mezzenga R. Continuous Paranematic Ordering of Rigid and Semiflexible Amyloid-Fe3O4 Hybrid Fibrils in an External Magnetic Field. Biomacromolecules 2016; 17:2555-61. [PMID: 27304090 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.6b00539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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External magnetic field is a powerful approach to induce orientational order in originally disordered suspensions of magneto-responsive anisotropic particles. By small angle neutron scattering and optical birefringence measurement technology, we investigated the effect of magnetic field on the spatial ordering of hybrid amyloid fibrils with different aspect ratios (length-to-diameter) and flexibilities decorated by spherical Fe3O4 nanoparticles. A continuous paranematic ordering from an initially isotropic suspension was observed upon increasing magnetic field strength, with spatial orientation increasing with colloidal volume fraction. At constant dimensionless concentration, stiff hybrid fibrils with varying aspect ratios and volume fractions, fall on the same master curve, with equivalent degrees of ordering at identical magnetic fields. However, the semiflexible hybrid fibrils with contour length close to persistence length exhibit a lower degree of alignment. This is consistent with Khokhlov-Semenov theoretical predictions. These findings sharpen the experimental toolbox to design colloidal systems with controllable degree of orientational ordering.
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- Jianguo Zhao
- Laboratory of Food and Soft Materials, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich , 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food and Soft Materials, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich , 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich , 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institute , 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food and Soft Materials, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich , 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich , 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Food and Soft Materials, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich , 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Schmidt ML, Davis JH. Liquid disordered–liquid ordered phase coexistence in bicelles containing unsaturated lipids and cholesterol. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2016; 1858:619-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2015.12.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2015] [Revised: 12/04/2015] [Accepted: 12/15/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Probing the transmembrane structure and topology of microsomal cytochrome-p450 by solid-state NMR on temperature-resistant bicelles. Sci Rep 2014; 3:2556. [PMID: 23989972 PMCID: PMC3757361 DOI: 10.1038/srep02556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2013] [Accepted: 08/15/2013] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Though the importance of high-resolution structure and dynamics of membrane proteins has been well recognized, optimizing sample conditions to retain the native-like folding and function of membrane proteins for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) or X-ray measurements has been a major challenge. While bicelles have been shown to stabilize the function of membrane proteins and are increasingly utilized as model membranes, the loss of their magnetic-alignment at low temperatures makes them unsuitable to study heat-sensitive membrane proteins like cytochrome-P450 and protein-protein complexes. In this study, we report temperature resistant bicelles that can magnetically-align for a broad range of temperatures and demonstrate their advantages in the structural studies of full-length microsomal cytochrome-P450 and cytochrome-b5 by solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Our results reveal that the N-terminal region of rabbit cytochromeP4502B4, that is usually cleaved off to obtain crystal structures, is helical and has a transmembrane orientation with ~17° tilt from the lipid bilayer normal.
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Liebi M, Kuster S, Kohlbrecher J, Ishikawa T, Fischer P, Walde P, Windhab EJ. Magnetically enhanced bicelles delivering switchable anisotropy in optical gels. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2014; 6:1100-1105. [PMID: 24369041 DOI: 10.1021/am4046469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Mesostructures responding to external triggers such as temperature, pH, or magnetic field have the potential to be used as self-acting sensors, detectors, or switches. Key features are a strong and well-defined response to the external trigger. Here, we present magnetic alignable bicelles embedded into a gelatin matrix generating magnetically switchable structures, which can reversibly be locked and unlocked by adjusting the temperature. We show that the disk-like aggregates can be orientated in magnetic fields, and such orientation can be preserved after embedding into gelatin. The resulting gel cubes show an anisotropic transfer for electromagnetic waves, i.e., a different spatial birefringence. Cycling through the melting point of gelatin sets the structure back to its isotropic state providing a read-out of the thermal history. Stacking of the bicelles induced by the gelatin promotes magnetic aligning, as an increased aggregation number in the stacks increases the magnetic orientation energy.
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- Marianne Liebi
- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Liebi M, Kuster S, Kohlbrecher J, Ishikawa T, Fischer P, Walde P, Windhab EJ. Cholesterol-diethylenetriaminepentaacetate complexed with thulium ions integrated into bicelles to increase their magnetic alignability. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:14743-8. [PMID: 24205912 DOI: 10.1021/jp406599c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Lanthanides have been used for several decades to increase the magnetic alignability of bicelles. DMPE-DTPA (1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-ethanolamine-diethylenetriaminepentaacetate) is commonly applied to anchor the lanthanides into the bicelles. However, because DMPE-DTPA has the tendency to accumulate at the highly curved edge region of the bicelles and if located there does not contribute to the magnetic orientation energy, we have tested cholesterol-DTPA complexed with thulium ions (Tm(3+)) as an alternative chelator to increase the magnetic alignability. Differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) measurements indicate the successful integration of cholesterol-DTPA into a DMPC (1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine) bilayer. Cryo transmission electron microscopy and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements show that the disklike structure, that is, bicelles, is maintained if cholesterol-DTPA·Tm(3+) is integrated into a mixture of DMPC, cholesterol, and DMPE-DTPA·Tm(3+). The size of the bicelles is increased compared to the size of the bicelles obtained from mixtures without cholesterol-DTPA·Tm(3+). Magnetic-field-induced birefringence and SANS measurements in a magnetic field show that with addition of cholesterol-DTPA·Tm(3+) the magnetic alignability of these bicelles is significantly increased compared to bicelles composed of DMPC, cholesterol, and DMPE-DTPA·Tm(3+) only.
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- Marianne Liebi
- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich , Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Bolisetty S, Vallooran JJ, Adamcik J, Mezzenga R. Magnetic-responsive hybrids of Fe3O4 nanoparticles with β-lactoglobulin amyloid fibrils and nanoclusters. ACS NANO 2013; 7:6146-6155. [PMID: 23750744 DOI: 10.1021/nn401988m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We report on the synthesis and magnetic-responsive behavior of hybrids formed by dispersing negatively charged iron oxide (Fe3O4) magnetic nanoparticles in positively charged β-lactoglobulin protein solutions at acidic pH, followed by heating at high temperatures. Depending on the pH used, different hybrid aggregates can be obtained, such as nanoparticle-modified amyloid fibrils (pH 3) and spherical nanoclusters (pH 4.5). We investigate the effect of magnetic fields of varying strengths (0-5 T) on the alignment of these Fe3O4-modified amyloid fibrils and spherical nanoclusters using a combination of scattering, birefringence and microscopic techniques and we find a strong alignment of the hybrids upon increasing the intensity of the magnetic field, which we quantify via 2D and 3D order parameters. We also demonstrate the possibility of controlling magnetically the sol-gel behavior of these hybrids: addition of salt (NaCl, 150 mM) to a solution containing nanoparticles modified with β-lactoglobulin amyloid fibrils (2 wt % fibrils modified with 0.6 wt % Fe3O4 nanoparticles) induces first the formation of a reversible gel, which can then be converted back to solution upon application of a moderate magnetic field of 1.1 T. These hybrids offer a new appealing functional colloidal system in which the aggregation, orientational order and rheological behavior can be efficiently controlled in a purely noninvasive way by external magnetic fields of weak intensity.
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- Sreenath Bolisetty
- Department of Health Science and Technology, Food and Soft Materials Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, LFO-E22, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Gangliosides containing different numbers of sialic acids affect the morphology and structural organization of isotropic phospholipid bicelles. Chem Phys Lipids 2013; 170-171:8-18. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2013.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2012] [Revised: 02/25/2013] [Accepted: 02/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Liebi M, van Rhee PG, Christianen PCM, Kohlbrecher J, Fischer P, Walde P, Windhab EJ. Alignment of bicelles studied with high-field magnetic birefringence and small-angle neutron scattering measurements. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2013; 29:3467-3473. [PMID: 23406168 DOI: 10.1021/la3050785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Birefringence measurements at high magnetic field strength of up to 33 T were used to detect magnetically induced alignment of bicelles composed of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC), cholesterol, and 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine-diethylenetriaminepentaacetate (DMPE-DTPA) with complexed lanthanide ions. These birefringence measurements together with a small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) analysis in a magnetic field showed parallel alignment of the bicelles if the lanthanide was thulium (Tm(3+)), and perpendicular alignment with dysprosium (Dy(3+)). With the birefringence measurements, the order parameter S can be determined as a function of the magnetic field strength, if the magnetic alignment reaches saturation. Additional structural information can be obtained if the maximum induced birefringence is considered. The degree of alignment of the studied bicelles increased with decreasing temperature from 40 to 5 °C and showed a new bicellar structure comprising a transient hole formation at intermediate temperatures (20 °C) during heating from 5 to 40 °C.
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- Marianne Liebi
- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Dürr UH, Soong R, Ramamoorthy A. When detergent meets bilayer: birth and coming of age of lipid bicelles. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2013; 69:1-22. [PMID: 23465641 PMCID: PMC3741677 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2013.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2012] [Accepted: 08/30/2012] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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WITHDRAWN: Cryo-TEM of molecular assemblies. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2012.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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