Langmuir monolayers as models to study processes at membrane surfaces

C Stefaniu, G Brezesinski, H Möhwald - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2014 - Elsevier
The use of new sophisticated and highly surface sensitive techniques as synchrotron based
X-ray scattering techniques and in-house infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy …

Thermodynamics of interaction of ionic liquids with lipid monolayer

G Bhattacharya, S Mitra, P Mandal, S Dutta, RP Giri… - Biophysical …, 2018 - Springer
Understanding the interaction of ionic liquids with cellular membrane becomes utterly
important to comprehend the activities of these liquids in living organisms. Lipid monolayer …

X-ray reflectivity study of the interaction of an imidazolium-based ionic liquid with a soft supported lipid membrane

G Bhattacharya, RP Giri, H Saxena, VV Agrawal… - Langmuir, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) are important for their antimicrobial activity and are found to be toxic to
some microorganisms. To shed light on the mechanism of their activities, the interaction of …

Studying calcium-triggered vesicle fusion in a single vesicle-vesicle content and lipid-mixing system

M Kyoung, Y Zhang, J Diao, S Chu, AT Brunger - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
This protocol describes a single vesicle-vesicle microscopy system to study Ca2+-triggered
vesicle fusion. Donor vesicles contain reconstituted synaptobrevin and synaptotagmin-1 …

Surface activities of a lipid analogue room-temperature ionic liquid and its effects on phospholipid membrane

S Mitra, R Das, A Singh, MK Mukhopadhyay, G Roy… - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
There are great efforts of synthesizing imidazolium-based ionic liquids (ILs) for developing
new antibiotics as these molecules have shown strong antibacterial activities. Compared to …

Counterion-mediated cluster formation by polyphosphoinositides

YH Wang, DR Slochower, PA Janmey - Chemistry and physics of lipids, 2014 - Elsevier
Polyphosphoinositides (PPI) and in particular PI (4, 5) P 2, are among the most highly
charged molecules in cell membranes, are important in many cellular signaling pathways …

[PDF][PDF] Absolute scattering length density profile of liposome bilayers obtained by SAXS combined with GIXOS: a tool to determine model biomembrane structure

RD Harvey, G Bello, AG Kikhney, J Torres… - Journal of applied …, 2023 - journals.iucr.org
Lipid membranes play an essential role in biology, acting as host matrices for biomolecules
like proteins and facilitating their functions. Their structures and structural responses to …

Probing the effect of a room temperature ionic liquid on phospholipid membranes in multilamellar vesicles

S Mitra, D Ray, G Bhattacharya, R Gupta, D Sen… - European Biophysics …, 2019 - Springer
The large number of potential applications of ionic liquids (ILs) requires an understanding of
their environmental impacts including their adverse effects on microorganisms living in soil …

Ionic liquid-induced phase-separated domains in lipid multilayers probed by x-ray scattering studies

R Gupta, A Singh, V Srihari, SK Ghosh - ACS omega, 2021 - ACS Publications
A cellular membrane, primarily a lipid bilayer, surrounds the internal components of a
biological cell from the external components. This self-assembled bilayer is known to be …

Unravelling the structural changes of phospholipid membranes in presence of graphene oxide

P Mandal, G Bhattacharya, A Bhattacharyya… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
Graphene-based nano-technology is the future of biomedical devices including biosensors
and, hence, it is essential to unravel the interaction of graphene oxide (GO) with cellular …