Reversible morphological control of tubulin-encapsulating giant liposomes by hydrostatic pressure

M Hayashi, M Nishiyama, Y Kazayama, T Toyota… - Langmuir, 2016 - ACS Publications
Liposomes encapsulating cytoskeletons have drawn much recent attention to develop an
artificial cell-like chemical-machinery; however, as far as we know, there has been no report …

Plug-and-play microfluidic production of monodisperse giant unilamellar vesicles using droplet transfer across Water–Oil interface

R Ushiyama, K Koiwai, H Suzuki - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2022 - Elsevier
Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are cell-sized compartments widely used in biological and
chemical applications. The monodispersity of GUVs is essential for quantitative analysis and …

Interaction between PEG lipid and DSPE/DSPC phospholipids: An insight of PEGylation degree and kinetics of de-PEGylation

D Paolino, ML Accolla, F Cilurzo, MC Cristiano… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2017 - Elsevier
The degree to which liposomes are PEGylated is the feature, which most influences the
length of the presence of stealth liposomes in the bloodstream. In order to thoroughly …

Thermotropic effects of PEGylated lipids on the stability of HPPH-encapsulated lipid nanoparticles (LNP)

P Kalyanram, A Puri, A Gupta - Journal of Thermal Analysis and …, 2022 - Springer
In this work, we demonstrate the enhanced thermal and steric stability of lipid-based
formulations in the presence of encapsulated HPPH that have demonstrated potential …

Controlling the kinetics of self-reproducing micelles by catalyst compartmentalization in a biphasic system

EAJ Post, SP Fletcher - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Compartmentalization of reactions is ubiquitous in biochemistry. Self-reproducing lipids are
widely studied as chemical models of compartmentalized biological systems. Here, we …

Interactions of amphiphilic polyoxazolines formulated or not in lipid nanocapsules with biological systems: Evaluation from membrane models up to in vivo mice …

L Simon, E Bellard, B Jouanmiqueou, V Lapinte… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we evaluated the potential of amphiphilic polyoxazolines (POx) to interact with
biological membranes thanks to models of increasing complexity, from a simple lipid bilayer …

Formation and characterization of hydrogenated soybean lecithin/TPGS nano-dispersions as a potential carrier for active herbal agents

PT Shen, SW Chiu, JY Chang, TW Chung… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2021 - Elsevier
The goal of this study was to examine the effects of lipid composition on physicochemical
characteristics of hydrogenated soybean lecithin (HL)/d-α-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol …

Dendronized vesicles: formation, self-organization of dendron-grafted amphiphiles and stability

A Banerjee, A Tam, M Dutt - Nanoscale Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fundamental bacterial functions like quorum sensing can be targeted to replace
conventional antibiotic therapies. Nanoparticles or vesicles that bind interfacially to charged …

Photoinduced pinocytosis for artificial cell and protocell systems

D Konetski, D Zhang, DK Schwartz… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A photocleavable membrane component was introduced into synthetic liposomes to achieve
light-triggered pinocytosis-like behavior as a potential solution to the feeding requirement in …

Recent advances in origins of life research by biophysicists in Japan

TZ Jia, Y Kuruma - Challenges, 2019 - mdpi.com
Biophysics research tends to focus on utilizing multidisciplinary technologies and
interdisciplinary collaborations to study biological phenomena through the lens of chemistry …