Branching ionizable lipids can enhance the stability, fusogenicity, and functional delivery of mRNA

K Hashiba, Y Sato, M Taguchi, S Sakamoto… - Small …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ionizable lipids with branched tails have been used in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs)‐based
messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics like COVID‐19 vaccines. However, due to the limited …

Putative roles of terpenoids in primitive membranes

JP King, A Wang - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - frontiersin.org
For the continuation and evolution of life, primitive membranes formed from prebiotically
available components must have fulfilled certain essential requirements. Candidate …

Enantiomers of phospholipids and cholesterol: a key to decipher lipid‐lipid interplay in membrane

S Hanashima, Y Yano, M Murata - Chirality, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Most phospholipids constituting biological membranes are chiral molecules with a
hydrophilic head group and hydrophobic alkyl chains, rendering biphasic property …

Depth-dependent segmental melting of the sphingomyelin alkyl chain in lipid bilayers

H Tsuchikawa, M Monji, Y Umegawa, T Yasuda… - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
The chain melting of lipid bilayers has often been investigated in detail using calorimetric
methods, such as differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and the resultant main transition …

Atomic Insights into pH-Dependent and Water Permeation of mRNA-Lipid Nanoparticles

SJ Feng, GW Chu, H Li, JF Chen - Molecular Pharmaceutics, 2025 - ACS Publications
The exposure of mRNA to water is likely to contribute to the instability of RNA vaccines upon
storage under nonfrozen conditions. Using atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations …

NMR Studies on the Structure and Functions of Small Biomolecules with Highly Flexible Conformation

M Murata, Y Umegawa… - Bulletin of the Chemical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In this review, we deal with the flexible structures of small biomolecules and discuss how
spontaneous conformational changes are related to their biological functions, mainly …

Conformation and Orientation of Branched Acyl Chains Responsible for the Physical Stability of Diphytanoylphosphatidylcholine

H Tsuchikawa, T Ono, M Yamagami, Y Umegawa… - Biochemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Diphytanoylphosphatidylcholine (DPhPC) is a synthetic phospholipid in which two methyl-
branched acyl chains are introduced into the glycerol moiety, mimicking phospholipids of …

Understanding novel reconstitution systems for native membrane protein biophysical characterisation

PA Fox - 2022 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
Membrane Proteins (MPs) constitute the majority of developed drug targets, and our ability
to satisfactorily investigate membrane proteins is paramount to a variety of areas within …

[PDF][PDF] 物理化学的特性およびタンパク質発現能を指標としたmRNA 封入脂質ナノ粒子の保存安定性に影響を与える因子の解明に関する研究

神谷万里子 - 2023 - nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp
PEG polyethyleneglycol Ψ pseudouridine RIG-I retinoic acid inducible gene-I ROI region of
interest SD standard deviation Sec second siRNA short interference RNA SNALP stable …

[引用][C] イオン性脂質の分岐足場は脂質ナノ粒子の安定性とin vivo mRNA 送達効率を高める

橋場一毅 - 2023 - 北海道大学