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Serum type and concentration both affect the protein-corona composition of PLGA nanoparticles

  • Katrin Partikel,
  • Robin Korte,
  • Dennis Mulac,
  • Hans-Ulrich Humpf and
  • Klaus Langer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1002–1015, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.101

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  • function in the body (Figure 6). A substantial part of the coronas consist of apolipoproteins. They are important components of lipoproteins that facilitate the transport of cholesterol, triglycerides, and phospholipids between plasma and cells [29]. Due to their lipid-binding domains, they are even more
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Published 06 May 2019

Liquid-crystalline nanoarchitectures for tissue engineering

  • Baeckkyoung Sung and
  • Min-Ho Kim

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 205–215, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.22

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  • DNA, collagen, chitin, viruses, as well as phospholipids and cellulose [23][24]. In test tubes, biocolloidal systems can be finely tuned to form self-organized structures by complex interplays between entropic and enthalpic driving forces, electrostatic and viscoelastic effects, and hydrophilic and
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Published 18 Jan 2018

Uptake and intracellular accumulation of diamond nanoparticles – a metabolic and cytotoxic study

  • Antonín Brož,
  • Lucie Bačáková,
  • Pavla Štenclová,
  • Alexander Kromka and
  • Štěpán Potocký

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1649–1657, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.165

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  • within phospholipids, proteins, and their polysaccharide conjugates [43]. Thus, we can expect similar zeta potential values for SAOS-2 cells, which are comparable with HPHT NDs and annealed DNDs, (i.e., negatively charged nanoparticles). It is known that negatively charged nanoparticles are less
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Published 10 Aug 2017

Phospholipid arrays on porous polymer coatings generated by micro-contact spotting

  • Sylwia Sekula-Neuner,
  • Monica de Freitas,
  • Lea-Marie Tröster,
  • Tobias Jochum,
  • Pavel A. Levkin,
  • Michael Hirtz and
  • Harald Fuchs

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 715–722, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.75

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  • variety of bio-applications. Keywords: microcontact cantilever spotting; phospholipids; polymeric porous support; polymethacrylate; Introduction Starting with the creation of high density peptide microarrays in the 1990s [1] the development of arrays with DNA molecules and antibodies has produced a
  • of ink fluidity under humidity controlled conditions [11][12]. Using quill-like pens (SPTs, short for surface patterning tool [13]) for lipid ink deposition permitted the reduction of the volume of phospholipids needed for array generation, as compared to other spotting techniques like ink jet
  • novel antiandrogens affinity to the receptor [6] and effects on the receptor’s poly Q-extended mutations [23]. Results and Discussion Microchannel cantilever spotting (µCS) with phospholipids In order to establish best conditions for microchannel cantilever spotting (µCS) of phospholipids with the SPTs
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Published 27 Mar 2017

An ellipsometric approach towards the description of inhomogeneous polymer-based Langmuir layers

  • Falko O. Rottke,
  • Burkhard Schulz,
  • Klaus Richau,
  • Karl Kratz and
  • Andreas Lendlein

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1156–1165, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.107

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  • based layers [18], as well as for those consisting of phospholipids [11], polymers [19], and even proteins [20]. All of them are amphiphilic in character and nonabsorbing in the visible spectral range, similar to PPDL, making the latter an appropriate candidate to represent this group of compounds
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Published 08 Aug 2016

Reconstitution of the membrane protein OmpF into biomimetic block copolymer–phospholipid hybrid membranes

  • Matthias Bieligmeyer,
  • Franjo Artukovic,
  • Stephan Nussberger,
  • Thomas Hirth,
  • Thomas Schiestel and
  • Michaela Müller

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 881–892, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.80

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  • molecular weight of the block copolymers. At low voltages, the channel conductance of OmpF in 1 M KCl was around 2.3 nS. In line with these experiments, integration of OmpF was also revealed by impedance spectroscopy. Our results indicate that blending synthetic polymer membranes with phospholipids allows
  • functional reconstitution of integral proteins, these membranes are often not applicable in technical processes due to their high fluidity and lack of long-term stability [16][17]. Therefore, novel approaches substitute phospholipids by amphiphilic block polymers that form membranes with a mechanical
  • strength up to 10 times larger than that of phospholipid bilayers [18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Vesicles formed by synthetic block polymers (polymersomes) can be modified in a similar way as vesicles made from phospholipids (liposomes) [25][26][27][28]. Although polymer membranes are generally thicker than
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Published 21 Jun 2016

Gold nanoparticles covalently assembled onto vesicle structures as possible biosensing platform

  • M. Fátima Barroso,
  • M. Alejandra Luna,
  • Juan S. Flores Tabares,
  • Cristina Delerue-Matos,
  • N. Mariano Correa,
  • Fernando Moyano and
  • Patricia G. Molina

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 655–663, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.58

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  • ; Introduction Vesicles are spherical structures composed primarily of phospholipids and these are organized in bilayers. These vesicles contain an internal aqueous phase and are suspended in an external aqueous phase. Therefore, the vesicles may contain lipophilic substances, which are located in the
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Published 02 May 2016

Pulmonary surfactant augments cytotoxicity of silica nanoparticles: Studies on an in vitro air–blood barrier model

  • Jennifer Y. Kasper,
  • Lisa Feiden,
  • Maria I. Hermanns,
  • Christoph Bantz,
  • Michael Maskos,
  • Ronald E. Unger and
  • C. James Kirkpatrick

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 517–528, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.54

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  • ]. Thus, in vitro studies focusing on cytotoxicity of NPs at and transport of NPs across this cellular air–blood barrier, must take into account that a prior interaction of NPs with pulmonary surfactant components will occur. Pulmonary surfactant comprises up to 90% phospholipids (phosphatidylcholines
  • surfactant substitution and originated from bovine alveolar lavage. It is composed of surfactant proteins SP-B and SP-C as well as phospholipids. It was suspended in PBS (phosphate-buffered saline) at a concentration of 40 mg/mL. Cell culture: ISO-HAS-1 (human microvascular endothelial cell line, originated
  • its inter-head groups, which causes a higher mobility of the N(CH3)3+ group terminus of the phospholipids. Consequently, silica alters the membrane permeability and the fluidity of the bilayers is decreased, which finally leads to membrane perturbation and disruption [36]. The latter can be sensed by
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Published 20 Feb 2015

Functionalization of α-synuclein fibrils

  • Simona Povilonienė,
  • Vida Časaitė,
  • Virginijus Bukauskas,
  • Arūnas Šetkus,
  • Juozas Staniulis and
  • Rolandas Meškys

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 124–133, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.12

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  • , and the concentration of fatty acids, phospholipids and metal ions, were shown to induce and/or modulate the α-Syn structure and oligomerization in vitro [17][18]. The formation of fibrils is enhanced under acidic conditions (pH 4–6) and the morphology of matured fibrils is influenced by the shape of
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Published 12 Jan 2015

Synthesis of boron nitride nanotubes and their applications

  • Saban Kalay,
  • Zehra Yilmaz,
  • Ozlem Sen,
  • Melis Emanet,
  • Emine Kazanc and
  • Mustafa Çulha

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 84–102, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.9

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  • only be used in biological applications after noncovalent [7] or covalent [15][16] modifications to increase their water dispersibility. Thus, they have been modified with several surface modifiers such as PEGylated phospholipids [17], and molecules of biological origin including DNA [18], proteins [13
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Published 08 Jan 2015

Nanobioarchitectures based on chlorophyll photopigment, artificial lipid bilayers and carbon nanotubes

  • Marcela Elisabeta Barbinta-Patrascu,
  • Stefan Marian Iordache,
  • Ana Maria Iordache,
  • Nicoleta Badea and
  • Camelia Ungureanu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2316–2325, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.240

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  • pristine and f-CNTs do not induce toxicity in mice [14][15][16][17]. On the other hand, biocoating SWCNTs with biomolecules such as phospholipids conveys biocompatibility and less toxicity to carbon nanotubes. Moreover, SWCNTs are characterized by less accumulation in body as compared to multi-walled
  • could open new perspectives for biomedical and biotechnological applications. The increased interest in use of phospholipids is due to the fact that they are basic structural components of biomembranes and artificial lipid membranes (liposomes). Liposomes are spherical, soft-matter vesicles composed of
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Published 02 Dec 2014

Model systems for studying cell adhesion and biomimetic actin networks

  • Dorothea Brüggemann,
  • Johannes P. Frohnmayer and
  • Joachim P. Spatz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1193–1202, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.131

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  • solubilized in octyl glucoside and added to different nitrogen dried phospholipids. Afterwards, the protein–lipid mixture was dialysed against a 1000 fold excess of the integrin buffer without octyl glucoside [34]. This procedure yielded proteoliposomes with functional integrin for the first time, as it was
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Published 01 Aug 2014

Cyclodextrin-poly(ε-caprolactone) based nanoparticles able to complex phenolphthalein and adamantyl carboxylate

  • Daniela Ailincai and
  • Helmut Ritter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 651–657, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.76

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  • nanovesicles based on natural macromolecular compounds, liposomes formed by autoassemble of phospholipids in aqueous medium [1], and nanovesicles formed by the autoassemble of synthetic amphiphilic copolymers, polymersomes [2]. There is a broad variety of conditions which have to be met, both for nanoparticles
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Published 16 May 2014

The optimal shape of elastomer mushroom-like fibers for high and robust adhesion

  • Burak Aksak,
  • Korhan Sahin and
  • Metin Sitti

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 630–638, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.74

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  • ][3]. A recent study by Hsu et al. [4] suggests that the presence of phospholipids on the tips of the fibers aid in adhesion. It has also been shown that humidity levels change the clinging ability of geckos significantly [5][6][7][8]. Regardless of the adhesion mechanism, the cumulative effect from
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Published 14 May 2014
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