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Simone E, Rappolt M, Ewens H, Rutherford T, Marty Terrade S, Giuffrida F, Marmet C. A synchrotron X-ray scattering study of the crystallization behavior of mixtures of confectionary triacylglycerides: Effect of chemical composition and shear on polymorphism and kinetics. Food Res Int 2024; 177:113864. [PMID: 38225135 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2023.113864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Revised: 12/08/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
Abstract
Cocoa butter equivalents (CBE) are mixtures of triglycerides from multiple sources (e.g., sunflower oil, mango kernel and sal), which resemble cocoa butter (CB) in both physical and chemical properties. Despite being widely used to replace CB in chocolate products, the crystallization behavior of many CBEs is still poorly understood. The aim of this work was to develop a fundamental understanding, at the molecular level, of the crystallization behavior of selected CBEs, and compare it with that of CB. Chromatography was used to determine the composition of CBEs, in terms of fatty acids and triacylglycerides (TAGs), while their thermodynamic behavior and crystallization kinetics were studied using polarized microscopy, differential calorimetry and three different synchrotron X-ray scattering setups. CBEs of different origin and chemical composition (e.g., different ratios of the main CB TAGs, namely POP, SOS and POS) crystallized in different polymorphs and with different kinetics of nucleation, growth and polymorphic transformation. SOS rich CBEs presented showed more polymorphs than CB and POP rich samples; whereas, CBEs with high concentration of POP showed slow kinetic of polymorphic transformation towards the stable β(3L) form. Additionally, it was observed that the presence of small amounts (<1% w/w) of specific TAGs, such as OOO, PPP or SSS, could significantly affect the crystallization behavior of CBEs and CBs in terms of kinetics of polymorphic transformation and number of phases detected (multiple high melting β(2L) polymorphs were identified in all samples studied). Finally, it was found that, regardless of the CBE composition, the presence of shear could promote the formation of stable β polymorphs over metastable β' and γ forms, and reduced the size of the crystal agglomerates formed due to increased secondary nucleation.
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- Elena Simone
- Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT), Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy; School of Food Science and Nutrition, Food Colloids and Bioprocessing Group, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, Food Colloids and Bioprocessing Group, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, Food Colloids and Bioprocessing Group, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Nestlé Product Technology Centre Confectionery, Haxby Road, York, YO31 8TA, United Kingdom
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- Nestlé Research, Vers-chez-les-Blanc, Lausanne 26, 1000, Switzerland
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Vancuylenberg G, Sadeghpour A, Tyler AII, Rappolt M. From angular to round: in depth interfacial analysis of binary phosphatidylethanolamine mixtures in the inverse hexagonal phase. Soft Matter 2023; 19:8519-8530. [PMID: 37889160 DOI: 10.1039/d3sm01029e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2023]
Abstract
Packing stress in the lipidic inverse hexagonal HII phase arises from the necessity of the ideally cylinder-shaped micelles to fill out the hexagonally-shaped Wigner-Seitz unit cell. Thus, hydrocarbon chains stretch towards the corners and compress in the direction of the flat side of the hexagonal unit cell. Additionally, the lipid/water interface deviates from being perfectly circular. To study this packing frustration in greater detail, we have doped 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-phosphatidylethanolamine (POPE) with increasing molar concentrations of 1,2-palmitoyl-sn-phosphatidylethanolamine (DPPE: 0 to 15 mol%). Due to its effectively longer hydrophobic tails, DPPE tends to aggregate in the corner regions of the unit cell, and thus, increases the circularity of the lipid/water interface. From small angle X-ray diffraction (SAXD) we determined electron density maps. Using those, we analysed the size, shape and homogeneity of the lipid/water interface as well as that of the methyl trough region. At 6 and 9 mol% DPPE the nanotubular water core most closely resembles a circle; further to this, in comparison to its neighbouring concentrations, the 9 mol% DPPE sample has the smallest water core area and smallest number of lipids per circumference, best alleviating the packing stress. Finally, a three-water layer model was applied, discerning headgroup, perturbed and free water, demonstrating that the hexagonal phase is most stable in the direction of the flat faces (compression zones) and least stable towards the vertices of the unit cell (decompression zones).
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
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Vancuylenberg G, Sadeghpour A, Tyler AII, Rappolt M. Correction: Planar confined water organisation in lipid bilayer stacks of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine. Soft Matter 2023. [PMID: 37382178 DOI: 10.1039/d3sm90081a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
Abstract
Correction for 'Planar confined water organisation in lipid bilayer stacks of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine' by Gerome Vancuylenberg et al., Soft Matter, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SM00387F.
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- Gerome Vancuylenberg
- School of Food Science and Nutrition, Woodhouse Lane, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, Woodhouse Lane, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, Woodhouse Lane, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, Woodhouse Lane, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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Vancuylenberg G, Sadeghpour A, Tyler AII, Rappolt M. Planar confined water organisation in lipid bilayer stacks of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine. Soft Matter 2023. [PMID: 37279036 DOI: 10.1039/d3sm00387f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
Phospholipid-based liposomes are abundantly studied in biomembrane research and used in numerous medical and biotechnological applications. Despite current extensive knowledge on membrane nanostructure and its mechanical properties under various environmental conditions, there is still a lack of understanding on interfacial lipid-water interactions. In this work, the nature of the confined water layer for L-α-phosphatidylcholine (egg-PC), 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC), 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) and 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (DMPE) in the fluid lamellar phase of multilamellar vesicles was investigated. A new model for describing three different water regions is proposed, which have been characterised using a combination of small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and densitometry. The three regions concern (i) 'the headgroup water', (ii) 'perturbed water' near the membrane/water interface and (iii) a core layer of 'free water' (unperturbed water). The behaviour of all three layers is discussed as a function of temperature, concerning influences of chain saturation and headgroup type. While the overall water layer and perturbed water layer thickness increase with temperature, the free water layer displays the opposite trend for PCs, and in PEs is completely absent. Furthermore, an estimate of the temperature dependent headgroup orientation is given for both, PCs and PEs. The newly presented structural data deduced from the three-water region model will be useful for future refined molecular dynamics simulations and allow a better theoretical understanding of the attractive van der Waals force between adjacent membranes.
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- Gerome Vancuylenberg
- School of Food Science and Nutrition, Woodhouse Lane, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, Woodhouse Lane, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, Woodhouse Lane, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, Woodhouse Lane, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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Seneviratne R, Coates G, Xu Z, Cornell CE, Thompson RF, Sadeghpour A, Maskell DP, Jeuken LJC, Rappolt M, Beales PA. High Resolution Membrane Structures within Hybrid Lipid-Polymer Vesicles Revealed by Combining X-Ray Scattering and Electron Microscopy. Small 2023; 19:e2206267. [PMID: 36866488 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202206267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Revised: 01/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
Hybrid vesicles consisting of phospholipids and block-copolymers are increasingly finding applications in science and technology. Herein, small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) are used to obtain detailed structural information about hybrid vesicles with different ratios of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) and poly(1,2-butadiene-block-ethylene oxide) (PBd22 -PEO14 , Ms = 1800 g mol-1 ). Using single particle analysis (SPA) the authors are able to further interpret the information gained from SAXS and cryo-ET experiments, showing that increasing PBd22 -PEO14 mole fraction increases the membrane thickness from 52 Å for a pure lipid system to 97 Å for pure PBd22 -PEO14 vesicles. Two vesicle populations with different membrane thicknesses in hybrid vesicle samples are found. As these lipids and polymers are reported to homogeneously mix, bistability is inferred between weak and strong interdigitation regimes of PBd22 -PEO14 within the hybrid membranes. It is hypothesized that membranes of intermediate structure are not energetically favorable. Therefore, each vesicle exists in one of these two membrane structures, which are assumed to have comparable free energies. The authors conclude that, by combining biophysical methods, accurate determination of the influence of composition on the structural properties of hybrid membranes is achieved, revealing that two distinct membranes structures can coexist in homogeneously mixed lipid-polymer hybrid vesicles.
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- Rashmi Seneviratne
- School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, PC Box 9502, Leiden, 2300 RA, Netherlands
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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Pratama Y, Burholt S, Baker DL, Sadeghpour A, Simone E, Rappolt M. Polymorphism of a Highly Asymmetrical Triacylglycerol in Milk Fat: 1-Butyryl 2-Stearoyl 3-Palmitoyl-glycerol. Cryst Growth Des 2022; 22:6120-6130. [PMID: 36217415 PMCID: PMC9542709 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.2c00713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Revised: 09/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
Milk fat has more than 200 triacylglycerols (TAGs), which play a pivotal role in its crystallization behavior. Asymmetrical TAGs containing short butyryl chains contribute to a significant portion of milk fat TAGs. This work aims to elucidate the crystallization behavior of asymmetrical milk fat TAGs by employing the pure compound of 1-butyryl 2-stearoyl 3-palmitoyl-glycerol (BuSP). The structural evolution of BuSP after being cooled down to 20 °C from the melt is evaluated by small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS and WAXS) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The temporal structural observation shows that BuSP crystallizes into the α-form with short and long spacings of 4.10 and 56.9 Å, respectively, during the first hour of isothermal hold at 20 °C. The polymorphic transformation of the α to β' phase occurred after 4 h of isothermal hold, and the β'- to α-form fraction ratio was about 70:30 at the end of the isothermal experiment (18 h). Pure β'-form X-ray patterns are obtained from the BuSP powder with short spacings of 4.33, 4.14, and 3.80 Å, while the long spacing of 51.2 Å depicts a three-chain-length lamellar structure with a tilt angle of 32°. Corresponding DSC measurements display that BuSP crystallizes from the melt at 29.1 °C, whereas the melting of α- and β'-forms was recorded at 30.3 and 47.8 °C, respectively. In the absence of the β-form, the β'-polymorph is the most stable observed form in BuSP. This work exemplarily explains the crystallization behavior of asymmetrical milk fat TAGs and thus provides new insights into their role in overall milk fat crystallization.
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- Yoga Pratama
- School
of Food Science and Nutrition, Food Colloids and Bioprocessing Group, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
- Department
of Food Technology, Faculty of Animal and Agricultural Sciences, Diponegoro University, Semarang 50275, Indonesia
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- School
of Food Science and Nutrition, Food Colloids and Bioprocessing Group, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
- Diamond-Leeds
Small Angle X-ray Scattering Facility, Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
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- School
of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- School
of Food Science and Nutrition, Food Colloids and Bioprocessing Group, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico
di Torino, Torino 10129, Italy
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- School
of Food Science and Nutrition, Food Colloids and Bioprocessing Group, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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Catania R, Machin J, Rappolt M, Muench SP, Beales PA, Jeuken LJC. Detergent-Free Functionalization of Hybrid Vesicles with Membrane Proteins Using SMALPs. Macromolecules 2022; 55:3415-3422. [PMID: 35571225 PMCID: PMC9097535 DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 04/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
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Hybrid
vesicles (HVs) that consist of mixtures of block copolymers
and lipids are robust biomimetics of liposomes, providing a valuable
building block in bionanotechnology, catalysis, and synthetic biology.
However, functionalization of HVs with membrane proteins remains laborious
and expensive, creating a significant current challenge in the field.
Here, using a new approach of extraction with styrene-maleic acid
(SMA), we show that a membrane protein (cytochrome bo3) directly transfers into HVs with an efficiency of 73.9
± 13.5% without the requirement of detergent, long incubation
times, or mechanical disruption. Direct transfer of membrane proteins
using this approach was not possible into liposomes, suggesting that
HVs are more amenable than liposomes to membrane protein incorporation
from a SMA lipid particle system. Finally, we show that this transfer
method is not limited to cytochrome bo3 and can also be performed with complex membrane protein mixtures.
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- Rosa Catania
- Astbury Centre of Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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- Astbury Centre of Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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- Astbury Centre of Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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- Astbury Centre of Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
- School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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- Astbury Centre of Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, University Leiden, Leiden 2300RA, The Netherlands
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Seneviratne R, Catania R, Rappolt M, Jeuken LJC, Beales PA. Membrane mixing and dynamics in hybrid POPC/poly(1,2-butadiene- block-ethylene oxide) (PBd- b-PEO) lipid/block co-polymer giant vesicles. Soft Matter 2022; 18:1294-1301. [PMID: 35048939 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm01591e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Lipids and block copolymers can individually self-assemble into vesicles, each with their own particular benefits and limitations. Combining polymers with lipids allows for further optimisation of the vesicle membranes for bionanotechnology applications. Here, POPC lipid is mixed with poly(1,2-butadiene-block-ethylene oxide) of two different molecular weights (PBd22-PEO14, Mr = 1800 g mol-1 and PBd12-PEO11, Mr = 1150 g mol-1) in order to investigate how increasing the polymer fraction affects membrane mixing, hydration and fluidity. Intensity contributions of fluorescently labelled lipid and polymer within mixed GUV membranes confirm membrane homogeneity within the hybrids. General polarisation measurements of Laurdan in GUVs showed little change in membrane hydration as polymer fraction is increased, which suggests good structural compatibility between lipids and polymers that gives rise to well-mixed vesicles. Membrane fluidity in hybrid GUVs was found to decrease non-linearly with increasing polymer fraction. However, the diffusion coefficients for the fluorescent polymer in hybrid membranes did not change significantly with increasing polymer content. While increasing the polymer fraction does reduce the movement of lipids through a polymer-rich matrix, insignificant difference in diffusion coefficients of the polymer suggests that its diffusion is minimally affected by increasing lipid composition in the range studied. These results lay further foundations for the wider development of hybrid vesicles with controlled properties for advanced biotechnologies.
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- Rashmi Seneviratne
- School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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Xu Z, Seddon JM, Beales PA, Rappolt M, Tyler AII. Breaking Isolation to Form New Networks: pH-Triggered Changes in Connectivity inside Lipid Nanoparticles. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:16556-16565. [PMID: 34591464 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c06244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
There is a growing demand to develop smart nanomaterials that are structure-responsive as they have the potential to offer enhanced dose, temporal and spatial control of compounds and chemical processes. The naturally occurring pH gradients found throughout the body make pH an attractive stimulus for guiding the response of a nanocarrier to specific locations or (sub)cellular compartments in the body. Here we have engineered highly sensitive lyotropic liquid crystalline nanoparticles that reversibly respond to changes in pH by altering the connectivity within their structure at physiological temperatures. At pH 7.4, the nanoparticles have an internal structure consisting of discontinuous inverse micellar "aqueous pockets" based on space group Fd3m. When the pH is ≤6, the nanoparticles change from a compartmentalized to an accessible porous internal structure based on a 2D inverse hexagonal phase (plane group p6mm). We validate the internal symmetry of the nanoparticles using small-angle X-ray scattering and cryogenic transmission electron microscopy. The high-resolution electron microscopy images obtained have allowed us for the first time to directly visualize the internal structure of the Fd3m nanoparticles and resolve the two different-sized inverse micelles that make up the structural motif within the Fd3m unit cell, which upon structural analysis reveal excellent agreement with theoretical geometrical models.
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- Zexi Xu
- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.,School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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Ke L, Luo S, Rao P, Bradshaw JP, Sa'adedin F, Rappolt M, Zhou J. An Evidence for a Novel Antiviral Mechanism: Modulating Effects of Arg-Glc Maillard Reaction Products on the Phase Transition of Multilamellar Vesicles. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 8:629775. [PMID: 33634106 PMCID: PMC7901936 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.629775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2020] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Maillard reaction products (MRPs) of protein, amino acids, and reducing sugars from many foods and aqueous extracts of herbs are found to have various bioactivities, including antiviral effects. A hypothesis was proposed that their antiviral activity is due to the interaction with the cellular membrane. Aiming to estimate the possible actions of MRPs on phospholipid bilayers, the Arg-Glc MRPs were prepared by boiling the pre-mixed solution of arginine and glucose for 60 min at 100°C and then examined at a series of concentrations for their effects on the phase transition of MeDOPE multilamellar vesicles (MLVs), for the first time, by using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and temperature-resolved small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). Arg-Glc MRPs inhibited the lamellar gel–liquid crystal (Lβ-Lα), lamellar liquid crystal–cubic (Lα-QII), and lamellar liquid crystal–inverted hexagonal (Lα-HII) phase transitions at low concentration (molar ratio of lipid vs. MRPs was 100:1 or 100:2), but promoted all three transitions at medium concentration (100:5). At high concentration (10:1), the MRPs exhibited inhibitory effect again. The fusion peptide from simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) induces membrane fusion by promoting the formation of a non-lamellar phase, e.g., cubic (QII) phase, and inhibiting the transition to HII. Arg-Glc MRPs, at low concentration, stabilized the lamellar structure of SIV peptide containing lipid bilayers, but facilitated the formation of non-lamellar phases at medium concentration (100:5). The concentration-dependent activity of MRPs upon lipid phase transition indiciates a potential role in modulating some membrane-related biological events, e.g., viral membrane fusion.
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- Lijing Ke
- Food Nutrition Sciences Centre, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Food Nutrition Sciences Centre, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Food Nutrition Sciences Centre, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine (MVM), The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine (MVM), The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Food Nutrition Sciences Centre, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China
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Sanver D, Sadeghpour A, Rappolt M, Di Meo F, Trouillas P. Structure and Dynamics of Dioleoyl-Phosphatidylcholine Bilayers under the Influence of Quercetin and Rutin. Langmuir 2020; 36:11776-11786. [PMID: 32911935 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Quercetin and rutin, two widely studied flavonoids with applications foreseen in the sectors of pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, have been chosen as model compounds for a detailed structural and dynamical investigation onto their influence on fluid lipid bilayers. Combining global small angle X-ray scattering analysis with molecular dynamics, various changes in the properties of dioleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (DOPC) bilayers have been determined. The solubility of quercetin in DOPC membranes is assured up to 12 mol %, whereas rutin, with additional glucose and rhamnose groups, are fully soluble only up to 6 mol %. Both flavonoids induce an increase in membrane undulations and thin the bilayers slightly (<1 Å) in a concentration dependent manner, wherein quercetin shows a stronger effect. Concomitantly, in the order of 2-4%, the adjacent bilayer distance increases with the flavonoid's concentration. Partial molecular areas of quercetin and rutin are determined to be 26 and 51 Å2, respectively. Simulated averaged areas per molecule confirm these estimates. A 60° tilted orientation of quercetin is observed with respect to the bilayer normal, whereas the flavonoid moiety of rutin is oriented more perpendicular (α-angle 30°) to the membrane surface. Both flavonoid moieties are located at a depth of 12 and 16 Å for quercetin and rutin, respectively, while their anionic forms display a location closer to the polar interface. Finally, at both simulated concentrations (1.5 and 12 mol %), DOPC-rutin systems induce a stronger packing of the pure DOPC lipid bilayer, mainly due to stronger attractive electrostatic interactions in the polar lipid head region.
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- Didem Sanver
- Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Food Engineering, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya 42050, Turkey
- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
- Biomaterials Science Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Allschwil 4123, Switzerland
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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- INSERM U1248 IPPRITT, University of Limoges, 2 rue du Prof. Descottes, Limoges 87000, France
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- INSERM U1248 IPPRITT, University of Limoges, 2 rue du Prof. Descottes, Limoges 87000, France
- RCPTM, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Palacký University, Olomouc 771 47, Czech Republic
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Tai K, Rappolt M, Mao L, Gao Y, Yuan F. Stability and release performance of curcumin-loaded liposomes with varying content of hydrogenated phospholipids. Food Chem 2020; 326:126973. [PMID: 32413757 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.126973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2020] [Revised: 05/02/2020] [Accepted: 05/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The aim of this study was to substitute part of soybean phospholipid (SPC) with hydrogenated soybean phospholipid (HSPC) in curcumin-loaded liposomes (Cur-LP), in order to further enhance stability and release performances of curcumin. When the SPC/HSPC mass ratio changed from 10:0 to 5:5, vesicle size, encapsulation efficiency and alkali resistance of curcumin increased, although a small decrease in centrifugal stability was observed. Salt stability became worse as more HSPC was used (3:7 and 0:10). Owing storage at 4 °C and 25 °C, Cur-LP at a SPC/HSPC mass ratio of 5:5 performed well considering vesicle size, lipid oxidation and curcumin retention. These vesicles displayed also the best sustained-release performance in simulated digestion, attributed to the tighter lipid packing in membranes as indicated by fluorescence probes, DSC and FTIR. This study can guide the development of a Cur-LP product with improved shelf-life stability by using HSPC.
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- Kedong Tai
- Key Laboratory of Precision Nutrition and Food Quality, Key Laboratory of Functional Dairy, Ministry of Education, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- Key Laboratory of Precision Nutrition and Food Quality, Key Laboratory of Functional Dairy, Ministry of Education, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Precision Nutrition and Food Quality, Key Laboratory of Functional Dairy, Ministry of Education, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Precision Nutrition and Food Quality, Key Laboratory of Functional Dairy, Ministry of Education, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China.
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Seneviratne R, Jeuken LJC, Rappolt M, Beales PA. Hybrid Vesicle Stability under Sterilisation and Preservation Processes Used in the Manufacture of Medicinal Formulations. Polymers (Basel) 2020; 12:polym12040914. [PMID: 32326448 PMCID: PMC7240416 DOI: 10.3390/polym12040914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2020] [Revised: 03/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Sterilisation and preservation of vesicle formulations are important considerations for their viable manufacture for industry applications, particular those intended for medicinal use. Here, we undertake an initial investigation of the stability of hybrid lipid-block copolymer vesicles to common sterilisation and preservation processes, with particular interest in how the block copolymer component might tune vesicle stability. We investigate two sizes of polybutadiene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) polymers (PBd12-PEO11 and PBd22-PEO14) mixed with the phospholipid 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) considering the encapsulation stability of a fluorescent cargo and the colloidal stability of vesicle size distributions. We find that autoclaving and lyophilisation cause complete loss of encapsulation stability under the conditions studied here. Filtering through 200 nm pores appears to be viable for sterilisation for all vesicle compositions with comparatively low release of encapsulated cargo, even for vesicle size distributions which extend beyond the 200 nm filter pore size. Freeze-thaw of vesicles also shows promise for the preservation of hybrid vesicles with high block copolymer content. We discuss the process stability of hybrid vesicles in terms of the complex mechanical interplay between bending resistance, stretching elasticity and lysis strain of these membranes and propose strategies for future work to further enhance the process stability of these vesicle formulations.
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- Rashmi Seneviratne
- School of Chemistry, Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and Bragg Centre for Materials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK;
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and Bragg Centre for Materials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK;
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition and Bragg Centre for Materials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK;
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- School of Chemistry, Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and Bragg Centre for Materials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK;
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Tai K, Rappolt M, Mao L, Gao Y, Li X, Yuan F. The stabilization and release performances of curcumin-loaded liposomes coated by high and low molecular weight chitosan. Food Hydrocoll 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2019.105355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Fong WK, Sánchez-Ferrer A, Rappolt M, Boyd BJ, Mezzenga R. Structural Transformation in Vesicles upon Hydrolysis of Phosphatidylethanolamine and Phosphatidylcholine with Phospholipase C. Langmuir 2019; 35:14949-14958. [PMID: 31642682 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b02288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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This study provides insights into dynamic nanostructural changes in phospholipid systems during hydrolysis with phospholipase C, the fate of the hydrolysis products, and the kinetics of lipolysis. The effect of lipid restructuring of the vesicle was investigated using small-angle X-ray scattering and cryogenic scanning electron microscopy. The rate and extent of phospholipid hydrolysis were quantified using nuclear magnetic resonance. Hydrolysis of two phospholipids, phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylcholine (PC), results in the cleavage of the molecular headgroup, causing two strikingly different changes in lipid self-assembly. The diacylglycerol product of PC escapes the lipid bilayer, whereas the diacylglycerol product adopts a different configuration within the lipid bilayer of the PE vesicles. These results are then discussed concerning the change of the lipid configuration upon the lipid membrane and its potential implications in vivo, which is of significant importance for the detailed understanding of the fate of lipidic particles and the rational design of enzyme-responsive lipid-based drug delivery systems.
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- Wye-Khay Fong
- Department of Health Sciences & Technology , ETH Zürich , 8092 Zürich , Switzerland
- Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Monash University , Parkville Campus, 381 Royal Parade , Parkville , 3052 Victoria , Australia
- Adolphe Merkle Institute , University of Fribourg , Chemin des Verdiers 4 , 1700 Fribourg , Switzerland
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition , University of Leeds , LS2 9JT Leeds , Yorkshire , U.K
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- Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Monash University , Parkville Campus, 381 Royal Parade , Parkville , 3052 Victoria , Australia
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- Department of Health Sciences & Technology , ETH Zürich , 8092 Zürich , Switzerland
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Tai K, Rappolt M, He X, Wei Y, Zhu S, Zhang J, Mao L, Gao Y, Yuan F. Effect of β-sitosterol on the curcumin-loaded liposomes: Vesicle characteristics, physicochemical stability, in vitro release and bioavailability. Food Chem 2019; 293:92-102. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2019.04.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2018] [Revised: 04/01/2019] [Accepted: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Ladd Parada M, Povey MJ, Vieira J, Rappolt M, Ries ME. Early stages of fat crystallisation evaluated by low-field NMR and small-angle X-ray scattering. Magn Reson Chem 2019; 57:686-694. [PMID: 30843260 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2018] [Revised: 02/28/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Low-field time-domain nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR; 20 MHz) is commonly used in the studies of fats in the form of solid fat content (SFC) measurements. However, it has the disadvantage of low sensitivity to small amounts of crystalline material (0.5%), thus often incorrectly determining crystallisation induction times. From spin-lattice relaxation rate measurements (R1 ) during the isothermal crystallisation measurements of cocoa butter between 0.01 and 10 MHz using fast field cycling NMR, we learnt previously that the most sensitive frequency region is below 1 MHz. Thus, we focused on analysing our 10-kHz data in detail, by observing the time dependence of R1 and comparing it with standard SFCNMR and SFC determinations from small-angle X-ray scattering (SFCSAXS ). Although not reflecting directly the SFC, the R1 at this low frequency is very sensitive to changes in molecular aggregation and hence potentially serving as an alternative for determination of crystallisation induction times. Alongside R1 , we also show that SFCSAXS is more sensitive to early stages of crystallisation, that is, standard SFCNMR determinations become more relevant when crystal growth starts to dominate the crystallisation process but fail to pick up earlier crystallisation steps. This paper thus demonstrates the potential of studying triacylglycerols at frequencies below 1 MHz for obtaining further understanding of the early crystallisation stages of fats and presents an alternative and complementary method to estimate SFC by SAXS.
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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Borah PK, Rappolt M, Duary RK, Sarkar A. Structurally induced modulation of in vitro digestibility of amylopectin corn starch upon esterification with folic acid. Int J Biol Macromol 2019; 129:361-369. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.02.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2018] [Revised: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 02/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Sadeghpour A, Rappolt M, Misra S, Kulkarni CV. Bile Salts Caught in the Act: From Emulsification to Nanostructural Reorganization of Lipid Self-Assemblies. Langmuir 2018; 34:13626-13637. [PMID: 30347980 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b02343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Bile salts (BSs) are important for the digestion and absorption of fats and fat-soluble vitamins in the small intestine. In this work, we scrutinized, with small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), the crucial functions of bile salts beyond their capacity for the interfacial stabilization of submicrometer-sized lipid particles. By studying a wide compositional range of BS-lipid dispersions using two widely applied lipids for drug-delivery systems (one a monoglyceride being stabilizer-sensitive and the other an aliphatic alcohol being relatively stabilizer-insensitive), we identified the necessary BS to lipid ratios to guarantee full emulsification. A novel ad hoc developed global small-angle-X-ray scattering analysis method revealed that the addition of BS hardly changes the bilayer thicknesses in bicontinuous phases, while significant membrane thinning is observed in the coexisting fluid lamellar phase. Furthermore, we show that a BS strongly decreases the average critical packing parameter. At increasing BS concentration, the order of phases formed is (i) the bicontinuous diamond cubic ( Pn3 m), (ii) the bicontinuous primitive cubic ( Im3 m), and (iii) the fluid lamellar phase ( Lα). These distinctive findings on BS-driven "emulsification" and "membrane curvature reduction" provide new molecular-scale insights for the understanding of the interfacial action of bile salts on lipid assemblies.
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- Amin Sadeghpour
- School of Food Science and Nutrition , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , United Kingdom
- Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Center for X-ray Analytics, Dübendorf 8600 , Switzerland
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , United Kingdom
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- School of Physical Sciences and Computing , University of Central Lancashire , Preston PR1 2HE , United Kingdom
- Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering , Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , Mumbai , 40076 , India
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry , University of Houston, Science Center , Houston , Texas 77204 , United States of America
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- School of Physical Sciences and Computing , University of Central Lancashire , Preston PR1 2HE , United Kingdom
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Ladd Parada M, Sadeghpour A, Vieira J, Povey M, Rappolt M. Global Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Data Analysis of Triacylglycerols in the α-Phase (Part II). J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:10330-10336. [PMID: 30351126 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b06708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The early-stage crystallization behavior in a triacylglycerol mixture has been investigated on the nanoscale with a novel global small-angle X-ray scattering analysis technique. This method has been tailored for the determination of the electron density profiles (EDPs) replicating both (i) the nanostructural texture of molten triacylglycerols (TAGs) (refer to "Global Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Data Analysis of Triacylglycerols in the Molten State (Part I)" of this publication series) and (ii) the lamellar structure of the metastable α-polymorph. In a first stage, the α-phase scattering contribution alone was examined by classical Fourier analysis as well as by globally fitting the data, leading to practically identical EDPs. On the basis of these findings, we extended our analysis to the entire X-ray scattering contribution arising from molten TAGs and the solid α-phase fraction. Remarkably, the experimental and theoretical data agree very well, providing for the first time a detailed nanostructural understanding about the coexisting molecular assemblies. This, in turn, also allowed us to quantitatively determine the solid fat content (SFC) with X-ray scattering data. Our new theoretical approach for measurement of SFC is based on the global analysis of small-angle scattering/diffraction patterns, and the SFC results are in good agreement with values obtained from other techniques such as NMR spectroscopy.
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- Marjorie Ladd Parada
- School of Food Science and Nutrition , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , U.K
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , U.K.,Department of Materials Meet Life , Center for X-ray Analytics, Empa , 8600 St. Gallen , Switzerland
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , U.K
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , U.K
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Sadeghpour A, Parada ML, Vieira J, Povey M, Rappolt M. Global Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Data Analysis of Triacylglycerols in the Molten State (Part I). J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:10320-10329. [PMID: 30351127 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b06704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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The study of triacylglycerols (TAGs) in their molten state is of fundamental importance for a deeper understanding of the TAG crystallization processes, being highly relevant for both manufacturing and medical applications. Although different models have been proposed to explain the nanostructured nature of the fluid state of TAGs, none of them are fully satisfactory. In this paper, we propose a new model consisting of positionally uncorrelated lamellar TAG assemblies embedded in an isotropic medium that assist as prenucleating structures. This model was validated by applying a novel global fitting method, resulting in an excellent agreement with the small-angle X-ray scattering data. A deeper analysis of the scattering patterns at different temperatures, both in cooling and heating directions, allowed us further to detect the crystalline traces of TAGs even after heating to 40 °C and record, on cooling, the onset of crystallization at 30-25 °C. The application of the presented novel model not only explains the outstandingly structured fluid of molten TAGs, but also lays the basis for analyzing first the crystallization steps in greater detail, which is outlined in our follow-up paper "Global Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Data Analysis of Triacylglycerols in the α-Phase (Part II)".
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- Amin Sadeghpour
- School of Food Science and Nutrition , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , U.K.,Department of Materials Meet Life, Empa , Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , 8600 St. Gallen , Switzerland
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , U.K
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , U.K
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , U.K
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Meegan JE, Yang X, Rungsirisakun R, Cosgrove SC, Bushby RJ, Sadeghpour A, Rappolt M, Brydson R, Ansell RJ. Synthesis and organogelating behaviour of amino acid-functionalised triphenylenes. Soft Matter 2017; 13:5922-5932. [PMID: 28770261 DOI: 10.1039/c7sm00676d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Four novel amino acid-functionalised triphenylenes have been prepared with glycine, l-alanine, l-phenylalanine and l-tryptophan ethyl ester side-chains. The glycine derivative is a good gelator of chloroform, the alanine derivative gels ethanol and toluene, and the phenylalanine derivative gels benzene and toluene. The tryptophan derivative does not gel any of the solvents tested, most probably due to its more bulky structure, but forms microspheres by evaporation-induced self-assembly. The self-assembly properties of the π-gelators have been investigated using infrared, UV-absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, concentration- and temperature-dependent NMR, and X-ray scattering experiments on dried xerogel as well as the wet organogel. The latter experiments suggest the glycine gel in chloroform includes columnar aggregates, with an overall disordered columnar oblique mesophase. These compounds are of interest because of the well-known hole-transporting properties of triphenylene liquid crystals: 1-D columnar assemblies of these compounds may find applications in organic electronic devices.
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- Jonathan E Meegan
- School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
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Liossi ΑS, Ntountaniotis D, Kellici TF, Chatziathanasiadou MV, Megariotis G, Mania M, Becker-Baldus J, Kriechbaum M, Krajnc A, Christodoulou E, Glaubitz C, Rappolt M, Amenitsch H, Mali G, Theodorou DN, Valsami G, Pitsikalis M, Iatrou H, Tzakos AG, Mavromoustakos T. Exploring the interactions of irbesartan and irbesartan-2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin complex with model membranes. Biochim Biophys Acta Biomembr 2017; 1859:1089-1098. [PMID: 28274845 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2017.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Revised: 02/15/2017] [Accepted: 03/03/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The interactions of irbesartan (IRB) and irbesartan-2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HP-β-CD) complex with dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) bilayers have been explored utilizing an array of biophysical techniques ranging from differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), ESI mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) and solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR). Molecular dynamics (MD) calculations have been also conducted to complement the experimental results. Irbesartan was found to be embedded in the lipid membrane core and to affect the phase transition properties of the DPPC bilayers. SAXS studies revealed that irbesartan alone does not display perfect solvation since some coexisting irbesartan crystallites are present. In its complexed form IRB gets fully solvated in the membranes showing that encapsulation of IRB in HP-β-CD may have beneficial effects in the ADME properties of this drug. MD experiments revealed the topological and orientational integration of irbesartan into the phospholipid bilayer being placed at about 1nm from the membrane centre.
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- Αdamantia S Liossi
- Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou 15771, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou 15771, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou 15771, Greece; Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-45110, Greece
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- School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou 15771, Greece; Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, Rio 26510, Greece
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- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and Centre for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/5, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou 15771, Greece
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- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and Centre for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/5, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou 15771, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou 15771, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou 15771, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-45110, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou 15771, Greece; Department of Chemistry, York College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, New York, 11451, United States.
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Adal E, Sadeghpour A, Connell S, Rappolt M, Ibanoglu E, Sarkar A. Heteroprotein Complex Formation of Bovine Lactoferrin and Pea Protein Isolate: A Multiscale Structural Analysis. Biomacromolecules 2017; 18:625-635. [PMID: 28080032 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.6b01857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Associative electrostatic interactions between two oppositely charged globular proteins, lactoferrin (LF) and pea protein isolate (PPI), the latter being a mixture of vicilin, legumin, and convicilin, was studied with a specific PPI/LF molar ratio at room temperature. Structural aspects of the electrostatic complexes probed at different length scales were investigated as a function of pH by means of different complementary techniques, namely, with dynamic light scattering, small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), turbidity measurements, and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Irrespective of the applied techniques, the results consistently displayed that complexation between LF and PPI did occur. In an optimum narrow range of pH 5.0-5.8, a viscous liquid phase of complex coacervate was obtained upon mild centrifugation of the turbid LF-PPI mixture with a maximum Rh, turbidity and the ζ-potential being close to zero observed at pH 5.4. In particular, the SAXS data demonstrated that the coacervates were densely assembled with a roughly spherical size distribution exhibiting a maximum extension of ∼80 nm at pH 5.4. Equally, AFM image analysis showed size distributions containing most frequent cluster sizes around 40-80 nm with spherical to elliptical shapes (axis aspect ratio ≤ 2) as well as less frequent elongated to chainlike structures. The most frequently observed compact complexes, we identify as mainly leading to LF-PPI coacervation, whereas for the less frequent chain-like aggregates, we hypothesize that additionally PPI-PPI facilitated complexes exist.
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- Eda Adal
- Food Colloids and Processing Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
- Food Engineering Department, Gaziantep University , 27310 Gaziantep, Turkey
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- Food Colloids and Processing Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Molecular and Nanoscale Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Food Colloids and Processing Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Food Engineering Department, Gaziantep University , 27310 Gaziantep, Turkey
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- Food Colloids and Processing Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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Nonspecific interactions of flavonoids with lipids can alter the membrane's features (e.g., thickness and fluctuations) as well as influence their therapeutic potentials. However, relatively little is known about the details of how flavonoids interact with lipid components. Structure-dependent interactions of a variety of flavonoids with phospholipid monolayers on a mercury (Hg) film electrode were established by rapid cyclic voltammetry (RCV). The data revealed that flavonoids adopting a planar configuration altered the membrane properties more significantly than nonplanar flavonoids. Quercetin, rutin, and tiliroside were selected for follow-up experiments with Langmuir monolayers, Brewster angle microscopy (BAM), and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). Relaxation phenomena in DOPC monolayers and visualization of the surface with BAM revealed a pronounced monolayer stabilization effect with both quercetin and tiliroside, whereas rutin disrupted the monolayer structure rendering the surface entirely smooth. SAXS showed a monotonous membrane thinning for all compounds studied associated with an increase in the mean fluctuations of the membrane. Rutin, quercetin, and tiliroside decreased the bilayer thickness of DOPC by ∼0.45, 0.8, and 1.1 Å at 6 mol %, respectively. In addition to the novelty of using lipid monolayers to systematically characterize the structure-activity relationship (SAR) of a variety of flavonoids, this is the first report investigating the effect of tiliroside with biomimetic membrane models. All the flavonoids studied are believed to be localized in the lipid/water interface region. Both this localization and the membrane perturbations have implications for their therapeutic activity.
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- Didem Sanver
- Department of Food Engineering, Necmettin Erbakan University , Koycegiz Kampusu, 420701 Konya, Turkey
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Kulkarni CV, Yaghmur A, Steinhart M, Kriechbaum M, Rappolt M. Effects of High Pressure on Internally Self-Assembled Lipid Nanoparticles: A Synchrotron Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) Study. Langmuir 2016; 32:11907-11917. [PMID: 27782407 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We present the first report on the effects of hydrostatic pressure on colloidally stabilized lipid nanoparticles enveloping inverse nonlamellar self-assemblies in their interiors. These internal self-assemblies were systematically tuned into bicontinuous cubic (Pn3m and Im3m), micellar cubic (Fd3m), hexagonal (H2), and inverse micellar (L2) phases by regulating the lipid/oil ratio as the hydrostatic pressure was varied from atmospheric pressure to 1200 bar and back to atmospheric pressure. The effects of pressure on these lipid nanoparticles were compared with those on their equilibrium bulk, nondispersed counterparts, namely, inverse nonlamellar liquid-crystalline phases and micellar solutions under excess-water conditions, using the synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) technique. In the applied pressure range, induced phase transitions were observed solely in fully hydrated bulk samples, whereas the internal self-assemblies of the corresponding lipid nanoparticles displayed only pressure-modulated single phases. Interestingly, both the lattice parameters and the linear pressure expansion coefficients were larger for the self-assemblies enveloped inside the lipid nanoparticles as compared to the bulk states. This behavior can, in part, be attributed to enhanced lipid layer undulations in the lipid particles in addition to induced swelling effects in the presence of the triblock copolymer F127. The bicontinuous cubic phases both in the bulk state and inside lipid cubosome nanoparticles swell on compression, even as both keep swelling further upon decompression at relatively high pressures before shrinking again at ambient pressures. The pressure dependence of the phases is also modulated by the concentration of the solubilized oil (tetradecane). These studies demonstrate the tolerance of lipid nanoparticles [cubosomes, hexosomes, micellar cubosomes, and emulsified microemulsions (EMEs)] for high pressures, confirming their robustness for various technological applications.
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- Chandrashekhar V Kulkarni
- Biological and Soft Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge , JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
- Centre for Materials Science, School of Physical Sciences and Computing, University of Central Lancashire , Preston PR1 2HE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen , DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic , 162 06 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology , A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology , A-8010 Graz, Austria
- School of Food Science & Nutrition, University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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We present a facile method to prepare nanostructured lipid particles stabilized by carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Single-walled (pristine) and multi-walled (functionalized) CNTs are used as stabilizers to produce Pickering type oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions. Lipids namely, Dimodan U and Phytantriol are used as emulsifiers, which in excess water self-assemble into the bicontinuous cubic Pn3m phase. This highly viscous phase is fragmented into smaller particles using a probe ultrasonicator in presence of conventional surfactant stabilizers or CNTs as done here. Initially, the CNTs (powder form) are dispersed in water followed by further ultrasonication with the molten lipid to form the final emulsion. During this process the CNTs get coated with lipid molecules, which in turn are presumed to surround the lipid droplets to form a particulate emulsion that is stable for months. The average size of CNT-stabilized nanostructured lipid particles is in the submicron range, which compares well with the particles stabilized using conventional surfactants. Small angle X-ray scattering data confirms the retention of the original Pn3m cubic phase in the CNT-stabilized lipid dispersions as compared to the pure lipid phase (bulk state). Blue shift and lowering of the intensities in characteristic G and G' bands of CNTs observed in Raman spectroscopy characterize the interaction between CNT surface and lipid molecules. These results suggest that the interactions between the CNTs and lipids are responsible for their mutual stabilization in aqueous solutions. As the concentrations of CNTs employed for stabilization are very low and lipid molecules are able to functionalize the CNTs, the toxicity of CNTs is expected to be insignificant while their biocompatibility is greatly enhanced. Hence the present approach finds a great potential in various biomedical applications, for instance, for developing hybrid nanocarrier systems for the delivery of multiple functional molecules as in combination therapy or polytherapy.
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- Yogita Patil-Sen
- Centre for Materials Science, School of Physical Sciences and Computing, University of Central Lancashire
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- Centre for Materials Science, School of Physical Sciences and Computing, University of Central Lancashire;
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Gregersen SB, Povey MJW, Andersen MD, Hammershøj M, Rappolt M, Sadeghpour A, Wiking L. Acoustic properties of crystallized fat: Relation between polymorphic form, microstructure, fracturing behavior, and sound intensity. EUR J LIPID SCI TECH 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ejlt.201500435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- School of Food Science and NutritionUniversity of LeedsLeedsUnited Kingdom
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- School of Food Science and NutritionUniversity of LeedsLeedsUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Food ScienceAarhus UniversityTjeleDenmark
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Joseph S, Rappolt M, Schoenitz M, Huzhalska V, Augustin W, Scholl S, Bunjes H. Stability of the Metastable α-Polymorph in Solid Triglyceride Drug-Carrier Nanoparticles. Langmuir 2015; 31:6663-6674. [PMID: 26030714 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Colloidal dispersions of crystalline nonpolar lipids are under intensive investigation as carrier systems in pharmaceutics and nutrition. In this context, the controlled preparation of particles in a metastable polymorphic state is of some interest for the delivery of active substances. In the present study, tristearin particles stabilized with three α-polymorph-preserving emulsifier regimes ((I) sodium glycocholate/saturated long-chain phospholipids, (II) sodium glycocholate, and (III) poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)) were investigated concerning the stability of the metastable α-polymorph after controlled crystallization of the particles from the melt. Upon long-term storage, the α-polymorph was preserved best in PVA-stabilized dispersions, followed by those stabilized with the glycocholate/phospholipid mixture and finally those stabilized solely with the bile salt. In particular for rapidly crystallized nanoparticles, the formation of an α-polymorph with highly reduced lamellarity was observed. According to time-/temperature-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction analysis with simultaneous DSC (differential scanning calorimetry) studies, this less-ordered α-polymorph transformed into the common, lamellar α-form upon heating. Although the presence of the less-ordered form is probably related to the extraordinarily high stability of the metastable α-polymorph observed in some of the dispersions, it could not completely prevent the transition into the stable β-polymorph. The higher the transition temperature of the less-ordered α-form to the ordered one, the slower was the polymorphic transition to the stable β-polymorph. To estimate the polymorphic stability of the differently stabilized particles upon isothermal long-term storage, standard DSC measurements on samples stored at 23 °C for 4 weeks seem to be of predictive value.
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- Sonja Joseph
- †Institut für Pharmazeutische Technologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstr. 1, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- §Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 6/IV, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- ∥Institut für Chemische und Thermische Verfahrenstechnik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 7, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- ∥Institut für Chemische und Thermische Verfahrenstechnik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 7, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- ∥Institut für Chemische und Thermische Verfahrenstechnik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 7, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- ∥Institut für Chemische und Thermische Verfahrenstechnik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 7, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- †Institut für Pharmazeutische Technologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstr. 1, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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Drasler B, Drobne D, Sadeghpour A, Rappolt M. Fullerene up-take alters bilayer structure and elasticity: A small angle X-ray study. Chem Phys Lipids 2015; 188:46-53. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2015.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2015] [Revised: 03/27/2015] [Accepted: 04/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Sadeghpour A, Rappolt M, Ntountaniotis D, Chatzigeorgiou P, Viras K, Megariotis G, Papadopoulos M, Siapi E, Mali G, Mavromoustakos T. Comparative study of interactions of aliskiren and AT 1 receptor antagonists with lipid bilayers. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes 2015; 1848:984-94. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2014.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2014] [Revised: 11/29/2014] [Accepted: 12/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Drašler B, Drobne D, Novak S, Valant J, Boljte S, Otrin L, Rappolt M, Sartori B, Iglič A, Kralj-Iglič V, Šuštar V, Makovec D, Gyergyek S, Hočevar M, Godec M, Zupanc J. Effects of magnetic cobalt ferrite nanoparticles on biological and artificial lipid membranes. Int J Nanomedicine 2014; 9:1559-81. [PMID: 24741305 PMCID: PMC3970951 DOI: 10.2147/ijn.s57671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Background The purpose of this work is to provide experimental evidence on the interactions of suspended nanoparticles with artificial or biological membranes and to assess the possibility of suspended nanoparticles interacting with the lipid component of biological membranes. Methods 1-Palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) lipid vesicles and human red blood cells were incubated in suspensions of magnetic bare cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4) or citric acid (CA)-adsorbed CoFe2O4 nanoparticles dispersed in phosphate-buffered saline and glucose solution. The stability of POPC giant unilamellar vesicles after incubation in the tested nanoparticle suspensions was assessed by phase-contrast light microscopy and analyzed with computer-aided imaging. Structural changes in the POPC multilamellar vesicles were assessed by small angle X-ray scattering, and the shape transformation of red blood cells after incubation in tested suspensions of nanoparticles was observed using scanning electron microscopy and sedimentation, agglutination, and hemolysis assays. Results Artificial lipid membranes were disturbed more by CA-adsorbed CoFe2O4 nanoparticle suspensions than by bare CoFe2O4 nanoparticle suspensions. CA-adsorbed CoFe2O4-CA nanoparticles caused more significant shape transformation in red blood cells than bare CoFe2O4 nanoparticles. Conclusion Consistent with their smaller sized agglomerates, CA-adsorbed CoFe2O4 nanoparticles demonstrate more pronounced effects on artificial and biological membranes. Larger agglomerates of nanoparticles were confirmed to be reactive against lipid membranes and thus not acceptable for use with red blood cells. This finding is significant with respect to the efficient and safe application of nanoparticles as medicinal agents.
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- Barbara Drašler
- University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia ; Centre of Excellence in Advanced Materials and Technologies for the Future, Ljubljana, Slovenia ; Centre of Excellence in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia ; Institute of Microbial Sciences and Technologies, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Basovizza, Italy ; School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Basovizza, Italy
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Laboratory of Clinical Biophysics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Laboratory of Clinical Biophysics, Chair of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Centre of Excellence in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Ljubljana, Slovenia ; Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Institute of Metals and Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Institute of Metals and Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Heftberger P, Kollmitzer B, Rieder A, Amenitsch H, Rappolt M, Pabst G. Temperature Dependence of Lo/Ld Domain Thickness and Elasticity by Global Saxs Data Analysis. Biophys J 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.11.2863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Kollmitzer B, Heftberger P, Rappolt M, Khelashvili G, Harries D, Pabst G. Protein Partitioning in Liquid-Ordered (LO) / Liquid-Disordered (LD) Domains Depends on Lipid Composition and Protein Shape. Biophys J 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.11.2853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Heftberger P, Kollmitzer B, Heberle FA, Pan J, Rappolt M, Amenitsch H, Kučerka N, Katsaras J, Pabst G. Global small-angle X-ray scattering data analysis for multilamellar vesicles: the evolution of the scattering density profile model. J Appl Crystallogr 2013; 47:173-180. [PMID: 24587787 PMCID: PMC3937811 DOI: 10.1107/s1600576713029798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2013] [Accepted: 10/30/2013] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The high-resolution scattering length density analysis method has been generalized from unilamellar to multilamellar lipid vesicles. The method may be applied to X-ray data only, or to a joint analysis of X-ray and neutron data, yielding an improved refinement of the lipid backbone position. The highly successful scattering density profile (SDP) model, used to jointly analyze small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering data from unilamellar vesicles, has been adapted for use with data from fully hydrated, liquid crystalline multilamellar vesicles (MLVs). Using a genetic algorithm, this new method is capable of providing high-resolution structural information, as well as determining bilayer elastic bending fluctuations from standalone X-ray data. Structural parameters such as bilayer thickness and area per lipid were determined for a series of saturated and unsaturated lipids, as well as binary mixtures with cholesterol. The results are in good agreement with previously reported SDP data, which used both neutron and X-ray data. The inclusion of deuterated and non-deuterated MLV neutron data in the analysis improved the lipid backbone information but did not improve, within experimental error, the structural data regarding bilayer thickness and area per lipid.
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- Peter Heftberger
- Instiute of Molecular Biosciences, Biophysics Division, University of Graz, Austria
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- Instiute of Molecular Biosciences, Biophysics Division, University of Graz, Austria
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- Biology and Soft Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Biology and Soft Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA ; Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Austria ; School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, UK
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Austria
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- Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, National Research Council, Chalk River, ON, Canada
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- Biology and Soft Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA ; Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences, Oak Ridge, TN, USA ; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA ; Department of Physics, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada
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- Instiute of Molecular Biosciences, Biophysics Division, University of Graz, Austria
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Monolayer spontaneous curvatures for cholesterol, DOPE, POPE, DOPC, DPPC, DSPC, POPC, SOPC, and egg sphingomyelin were obtained using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) on inverted hexagonal phases (HII). Spontaneous curvatures of bilayer forming lipids were estimated by adding controlled amounts to a HII forming template following previously established protocols. Spontaneous curvatures of both phosphatidylethanolamines and cholesterol were found to be at least a factor of two more negative than those of phosphatidylcholines, whose J0 values are closer to zero. Interestingly, a significant positive J0 value was retrieved for DPPC. We further determined the temperature dependence of the spontaneous curvatures J0(T) in the range from 15 to 55 °C, resulting in a quite narrow distribution of -1 to -3 × 10-3 (nm °C)-1 for most investigated lipids. The data allowed us to estimate the monolayer spontaneous curvatures of ternary lipid mixtures showing liquid ordered/liquid disordered phase coexistence. We report spontaneous curvature phase diagrams for DSPC/DOPC/Chol, DPPC/DOPC/Chol and SM/POPC/Chol and discuss effects on protein insertion and line tension.
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- Benjamin Kollmitzer
- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Biophysics Division, University of Graz, Austria. ; ; Tel: +43 316 4120-342
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Biophysics Division, University of Graz, Austria. ; ; Tel: +43 316 4120-342
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Austria ; School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, UK
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Biophysics Division, University of Graz, Austria. ; ; Tel: +43 316 4120-342
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Rittman M, Amenitsch H, Rappolt M, Sartori B, O'Driscoll BMD, Squires AM. Control and analysis of oriented thin films of lipid inverse bicontinuous cubic phases using grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering. Langmuir 2013; 29:9874-9880. [PMID: 23837868 DOI: 10.1021/la401580y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Lipid cubic phases are complex nanostructures that form naturally in a variety of biological systems, with applications including drug delivery and nanotemplating. Most X-ray scattering studies on lipid cubic phases have used unoriented polydomain samples as either bulk gels or suspensions of micrometer-sized cubosomes. We present a method of investigating cubic phases in a new form, as supported thin films that can be analyzed using grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS). We present GISAXS data on three lipid systems: phytantriol and two grades of monoolein (research and industrial). The use of thin films brings a number of advantages. First, the samples exhibit a high degree of uniaxial orientation about the substrate normal. Second, the new morphology allows precise control of the substrate mesophase geometry and lattice parameter using a controlled temperature and humidity environment, and we demonstrate the controllable formation of oriented diamond and gyroid inverse bicontinuous cubic along with lamellar phases. Finally, the thin film morphology allows the induction of reversible phase transitions between these mesophase structures by changes in humidity on subminute time scales, and we present time-resolved GISAXS data monitoring these transformations.
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- Martyn Rittman
- Department of Chemistry, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AD, UK
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Pabst G, Kollmitzer B, Heftberger P, Rappolt M. Cholesterol Stabilizes Ion Channel Function during Sphingomyelinase Hydrolysis. Biophys J 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.11.2411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Boulgaropoulos B, Rappolt M, Sartori B, Amenitsch H, Pabst G. Lipid sorting by ceramide and the consequences for membrane proteins. Biophys J 2012; 102:2031-8. [PMID: 22824266 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.03.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2012] [Revised: 03/08/2012] [Accepted: 03/23/2012] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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We mimicked the effect of sphingomyelinase activity on lipid mixtures of palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine, sphingomyelin, ceramide, and 10 mol % cholesterol. Using x-ray diffraction experiments in combination with osmotic stress we found, in agreement with previous studies, that ceramide induces a coexistence of L(α) and L(β) domains. A detailed structural analysis of the coexisting domains demonstrated an increase of lipid packing density and membrane thickness in the L(α) domains upon increasing overall ceramide levels. This provides evidence for a ceramide-driven accumulation of cholesterol in the L(α) domains, in support of previous reports. We further determined the bending rigidities of the coexisting domains and found that the accumulation of cholesterol in the L(α) domains stabilizes their bending rigidity, which experiences a dramatic drop in the absence of cholesterol. Deriving experimental estimates for the spontaneous curvature and Gaussian modulus of curvature, we show, using a simple geometric model for ion channels, that in this way changes in the conformational equilibrium of membrane proteins can be kept small.
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- Beate Boulgaropoulos
- Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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Fotakis C, Megariotis G, Christodouleas D, Kritsi E, Zoumpoulakis P, Ntountaniotis D, Zervou M, Potamitis C, Hodzic A, Pabst G, Rappolt M, Mali G, Baldus J, Glaubitz C, Papadopoulos MG, Afantitis A, Melagraki G, Mavromoustakos T. Comparative study of the AT1 receptor prodrug antagonist candesartan cilexetil with other sartans on the interactions with membrane bilayers. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes 2012; 1818:3107-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2012] [Revised: 07/26/2012] [Accepted: 08/13/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Pabst G, Prassl R, Amenitsch H, Rappolt M, Lohner K. Scattering techniques in biology--Marking the contributions to the field from Peter Laggner on the occasion of his 68th birthday. Eur Biophys J 2012; 41:777-929. [PMID: 23015062 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-012-0853-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2012] [Accepted: 08/29/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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- Georg Pabst
- Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, 8042, Graz, Austria.
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Yaghmur A, Sartori B, Rappolt M. Self-assembled nanostructures of fully hydrated monoelaidin-elaidic acid and monoelaidin-oleic acid systems. Langmuir 2012; 28:10105-10119. [PMID: 22690845 DOI: 10.1021/la3019716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in exploring the effect of trans-fatty acids (TFAs) on biological membrane properties. The research studies are motivated by an increasing body of evidence suggesting that the consumption of TFAs increases the risk of developing negative health effects such as coronary heart disease and cancer. The ultimate goal of studying the lipid-fatty acid interactions at the molecular level is to predict the biological role of fatty acids in cells. In this regard, it is interesting to elucidate the effect of loading TFAs and their counterpart cis-fatty acids (CFAs) on the physical properties of lipid model membranes. Here, the present study focuses on discussing the following: (1) the effect of mixing monoelaidin (ME, TFA-containing lipid) with its counterpart monoolein (MO, CFA-containing lipid) on modulating the fully hydrated self-assembled structure, and (2) the influence of solubilizing oleic acid (OA) and its trans counterpart elaidic acid (EA) on the fully hydrated ME system. The ME model membrane was selected due to its sensitivity to variations in lipid composition and temperature. Synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) was applied for studying the temperature-dependent structural behavior of the fully hydrated ME/MO-based system prepared with an equal ME/MO weight ratio and also for characterizing the fully hydrated OA- and EA-loaded ME systems. Wide-angle X-ray (WAXS) experiments were also performed for characterizing the formed crystalline lamellar phases at ambient temperatures. The results demonstrate the significant influence of the partial replacement of ME by MO on the phase behavior. The addition of MO induces the lamellar-nonlamellar phase transitions at ambient temperatures and promotes the formation of the inverted type hexagonal (H(2)) phase above 72 °C. The fully hydrated ME/EA and ME/OA systems with their rich polymorphism exhibit an interesting temperature-dependent complex behavior. The experimental findings show that the temperature-induced phase transitions are dictated by the solubilized fatty acid concentration and its configuration. Both EA and OA have a significant impact on the fully hydrated ME system. Similar to previous published studies, OA induces a significantly stronger mean negative membrane curvature as compared to EA. The two phase diagrams are discussed in terms of water-lipid and lipid-fatty acid interactions, membrane bending, and lipid packing concepts. A newly observed interesting epitaxial relationship for the lamellar-hexagonal phase transition in the EA-loaded ME system is illustrated and discussed in detail.
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- Anan Yaghmur
- Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Hodzic A, Zoumpoulakis P, Pabst G, Mavromoustakos T, Rappolt M. Losartan's affinity to fluid bilayers modulates lipid-cholesterol interactions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:4780-8. [PMID: 22395854 DOI: 10.1039/c2cp40134g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Losartan is an angiotensin II receptor antagonist mainly used for the regulation of high blood pressure. Since it was anticipated that losartan reaches the receptor site via membrane diffusion, the impact of losartan on model membranes has been investigated by small angle X-ray scattering. For this purpose 2-20 mol% losartan was incorporated into dimyristoyl-phosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (POPC) bilayers and into their binary mixtures with cholesterol in the concentration range of 0 to 40 mol%. Effects of losartan on single component bilayers are alike. Partitioning of losartan into the membranes confers a negative charge to the lipid bilayers that causes the formation of unilamellar vesicles and a reduction of the bilayer thickness by 3-4%. Analysis of the structural data resulted in an estimate for the partial area of losartan, A(Los) ≈ 40 Å(2). In the presence of cholesterol, differences between the effects of losartan on POPC and DMPC are striking. Membrane condensation by cholesterol is retarded by losartan in POPC. This contrasts with DMPC, where an increase of the cholesterol content shifts the partitioning equilibrium of losartan towards the aqueous phase, such that losartan gets depleted from the bilayers from 20 mol% cholesterol onwards. This indicates (i) a chain-saturation dependent competition of losartan with lipid-cholesterol interactions, and (ii) the insolubility of losartan in the liquid ordered phase of PCs. Consequently, losartan's action is more likely to take place in fluid plasma membrane patches rather than in domains rich in cholesterol and saturated lipid species such as in membrane rafts.
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- A Hodzic
- Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, Austrian Academy of Science, 8042 Graz, Austria
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Yaghmur A, Rappolt M, Østergaard J, Larsen C, Larsen SW. Characterization of bupivacaine-loaded formulations based on liquid crystalline phases and microemulsions: the effect of lipid composition. Langmuir 2012; 28:2881-9. [PMID: 22247936 DOI: 10.1021/la203577v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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This report details the structural characterization and the in vitro drug-release properties of different local anesthetic bupivacaine (BUP)-loaded inverted-type liquid crystalline phases and microemulsions. The effects of variations in the lipid composition and/or BUP concentration on the self-assembled nanostructures were investigated in the presence of the commercial distilled glycerol monooleate Myverol 18-99K (GMO) and medium-chain triglycerides (MCT). Synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and rotating dialysis cell model were used to characterize the BUP formulations and to investigate the in vitro BUP release profiles, respectively. The evaluation of SAXS data for the BUP-loaded GMO/MCT formulations indicates the structural transition of inverted-type bicontinuous cubic phase of the symmetry Pn3m → inverted-type hexagonal (H(2)) phase → inverted-type microemulsion (L(2)) with increasing MCT content (0-40 wt %). In the absence of MCT, the solubilization of BUP induces the transition of Pn3m → H(2) at pH 7.4; whereas a transition of Pn3m → (Pn3m + H(2)) is detected as the hydration is achieved at pH 6.0. To mimic the drug release and transport from in situ formed self-assembled systems after subcutaneous administration, the release experiments were performed by injecting low viscous stimulus-responsive precursors to a buffer in the dialysis cell leaving the surface area between the self-assembled system and the release medium variable. Our results suggest that the pH-dependent variations in the lipidic partition coefficient, K(l/w), between the liquid crystalline nanostructures and the surrounding buffer solution are significantly affecting BUP release rates. Thus, a first step toward understanding of the drug-release mechanism of this drug-delivery class has been undertaken tackling the influence of drug ionization as well as the type of the self-assembled nanostructure and its release kinetics under pharmaceutically relevant conditions.
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- Anan Yaghmur
- Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Kowlgi K, Lafont U, Rappolt M, Koper G. Uniform metal nanoparticles produced at high yield in dense microemulsions. J Colloid Interface Sci 2012; 372:16-23. [PMID: 22305574 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2012.01.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2011] [Revised: 01/09/2012] [Accepted: 01/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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This article demonstrates that bicontinuous microemulsions are optimal templates for high yield production of metal nanoparticles. We have verified this for a variety of microemulsion systems having AOT (sodium bis (2-ethyhexyl) sulphosuccinate) or a fluorocarbon (perfluoro (4-methyl-3,6-dioxaoctane)sulphonate) as surfactant mixed with water and oils like n-heptane or n-dodecane. Several types of metal nanoparticles, including platinum, gold and iron, were produced in these microemulsions having a size range spanning 1.8-17 nm with a very narrow size distribution of ±1 nm. Remarkably high mass concentrations up to 3% were reached. Size and concentration of the nanoparticles could be varied with the stoichiometries of the reagents that constituted them. The optimization towards high yield while maintaining low size polydispersity is due to the decoupling of the time scales for the precipitation reaction and for coarsening. In actual fact, coalescence is essentially prevented by the immobilization of nanoparticles within the bicontinuous microemulsion structure.
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- Krishna Kowlgi
- Self-Assembling Systems, Department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 136, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands
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Khelashvili G, Rappolt M, Chiu SW, Pabst G, Harries D. Impact of sterol tilt on membrane bending rigidity in cholesterol and 7DHC-containing DMPC membranes. Soft Matter 2011; 7:10299-10312. [PMID: 23173009 PMCID: PMC3500765 DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05937h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Cholesterol is so essential to the proper function of mammalian cell membranes that even strikingly small inborn errors in cholesterol synthesis can be devastating. Here we combine molecular dynamics simulations with small angle x-ray diffraction experiments to compare mixed sterol/DMPC membranes over a wide range of sterol compositions for two types of sterols: cholesterol and its immediate metabolic precursor 7DHC, that differs from cholesterol by one double bond. We find that while most membrane properties are only slightly affected by the replacement of one sterol by the other, the tilt degree of freedom, as gauged by the tilt modulus, is significantly larger for cholesterol than for 7DHC over a large range of concentrations. In silico mutations of one sterol into the other further support these findings. Moreover, bending rigidities calculated from simulations and estimated in experiments show that cholesterol stiffens membranes to a larger extent than 7DHC. We discuss the possible mechanistic link between sterol tilt and the way it impacts the membrane mechanical properties, and comment on how this link may shed light on the way replacement of cholesterol by 7DHC leads to disease.
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- Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-8042 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
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- Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-8042 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Chemistry and the Fritz Haber Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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Ntountaniotis D, Mali G, Grdadolnik SG, Halabalaki M, Maria H, Skaltsounis AL, Potamitis C, Siapi E, Chatzigeorgiou P, Rappolt M, Mavromoustakos T. Thermal, dynamic and structural properties of drug AT1 antagonist olmesartan in lipid bilayers. Biochim Biophys Acta 2011; 1808:2995-3006. [PMID: 21843501 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2011] [Revised: 07/14/2011] [Accepted: 08/01/2011] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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It is proposed that AT1 antagonists (ARBs) exert their biological action by inserting into the lipid membrane and then diffuse to the active site of AT1 receptor. Thus, lipid bilayers are expected to be actively involved and play a critical role in drug action. For this reason, the thermal, dynamic and structural effects of olmesartan alone and together with cholesterol were studied using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), 13C magic-angle spinning (MAS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), cross-polarization (CP) MAS NMR, and Raman spectroscopy as well as small- and wide angle X-ray scattering (SAXS and WAXS) on dipalmitoyl-phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) multilamellar vesicles. 13C CP/MAS spectra provided direct evidence for the incorporation of olmesartan and cholesterol in lipid bilayers. Raman and X-ray data revealed how both molecules modify the bilayer's properties. Olmesartan locates itself at the head-group region and upper segment of the lipid bilayers as 13C CP/MAS spectra show that its presence causes significant chemical shift changes mainly in the A ring of the steroidal part of cholesterol. The influence of olmesartan on DPPC/cholesterol bilayers is less pronounced. Although, olmesartan and cholesterol are residing at the same region of the lipid bilayers, due to their different sizes, display distinct impacts on the bilayer's properties. Cholesterol broadens significantly the main transition, abolishes the pre-transition, and decreases the membrane fluidity above the main transition. Olmesartan is the only so far studied ARB that increases the gauche:trans ratio in the liquid crystalline phase. These significant differences of olmesartan may in part explain its distinct pharmacological profile.
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Potamitis C, Chatzigeorgiou P, Siapi E, Viras K, Mavromoustakos T, Hodzic A, Pabst G, Cacho-Nerin F, Laggner P, Rappolt M. Interactions of the AT1 antagonist valsartan with dipalmitoyl-phosphatidylcholine bilayers. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes 2011; 1808:1753-63. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2010] [Revised: 01/30/2011] [Accepted: 02/01/2011] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Shyjumon I, Rappolt M, Sartori B, Cacho-Nerin F, Grenci G, Laggner P, Amenitsch H. Mesostructured silica aerosol particles: comparison of gas-phase and powder deposit X-ray diffraction data. Langmuir 2011; 27:5542-5548. [PMID: 21466238 DOI: 10.1021/la104892s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We report on the characterization of mesostructured aerosol silica particles in the gas phase using in situ synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) in order to unveil the influence of the basic production parameters. The investigated system was based on tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) as the inorganic precursor and on cetyltrimethyl-ammonium bromide (CTAB) as the surfactant. The heating temperature, surfactant to silicate ratio, and particle flow rate were thoroughly investigated, and for this purpose, an in-house-built aerosol reactor equipped with a special X-ray observation chamber was used. Complementary fine structural analysis was applied on dried deposits of the silica aerosols comprising direct Fourier transforms as well as simple two-phase model fits. This resulted in robust estimates for the silica wall thickness and surfactant core radius of the hexagonally ordered mesostructure. The particle shape and size distribution were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The quality of the inner nanostructure was revealed from an analysis of the peak width. The comparison of data from the gas phase and powder deposit shows that, in general, slower drying conditions (heating temperature about 80 °C) and a medium surfactant to Si ratio (about 0.14) lead to nanostructures of the best quality in terms of well-defined long-range organization.
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- I Shyjumon
- Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstraße 6, 8042 Graz, Austria
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