Design of Swollen Lipidic Cubic Phase to Increase Transcutaneous Penetration of Biomacromolecules

Author(s):  
Shuto Kozaka ◽  
Rie Wakabayashi ◽  
Noriho Kamiya ◽  
Masahiro Goto
RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (73) ◽  
pp. 68685-68694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Meikle ◽  
Charlotte E. Conn ◽  
Frances Separovic ◽  
Calum J. Drummond

Lipid based bicontinuous cubic mesophases provide a low-cost, robust membrane mimetic nanomaterial which allows for the incorporation of membrane peptides and proteins.


2011 ◽  
Vol 100 (8) ◽  
pp. 2075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Höfer ◽  
David Aragão ◽  
Martin Caffrey

Author(s):  
Peter Berntsen ◽  
Connie Darmanin ◽  
Eugeniu Balaur ◽  
Leonie Flueckiger ◽  
Alex Kozlov ◽  
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2005 ◽  
Vol 275 (1-2) ◽  
pp. e1453-e1459 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Efremov ◽  
G. Shiryaeva ◽  
G. Bueldt ◽  
A. Islamov ◽  
A. Kuklin ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Ericson ◽  
Xingyu Yin ◽  
Alexander Scalia ◽  
Yasmin N. Samara ◽  
Richard Stearns ◽  
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2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 1295-1296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nollert

The use of lipidic cubic phases as crystal nucleation and growth matrices is becoming popular and has yielded crystals of soluble and membrane proteins. So far, all of the membrane proteins crystallized by this method have been colored. This feature has facilitated the detection of the often encountered microcrystals in initial screening rounds. Indeed, small colorless protein crystals have poor optical contrast as a result of the small differences in refractive index of the protein crystal and the surrounding lipidic cubic phase. While a perfect preparation of a lipidic cubic phase is transparent and optically isotropic, in a crystallization setup it frequently disguises crystals due to cracks, inclusions, surface distortions and phase boundaries. Here, several specialized microscopic techniques and illumination conditions are compared and it is found that sufficient contrast is generated by cross polarization microscopy and by Hoffman modulation contrast microscopy for the detection of colorless protein crystals.


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