To elucidate effects of electrostatic interactions resulting from surface charges on structures and phase stability of cubic phases of lipid membranes, membranes of 1-monoolein (MO) and dioleoylphosphatidic acid (DOPA) (DOPA/MO membrane) mixtures have been investigated by small-angle x-ray scattering method. As increasing DOPA concentration in the DOPA/MO membrane at 30 wt% lipid concentration,...

The apparent solubilization of water in hydrocarbon solvents by the addition of 0.1% to 2.0% w/w di-(2-ethylhexyl) sodium sulfosuccinate (AOT) has been studied. In n-octane and n-decane, transitions of clear-turbid-clear-turbid were observed with increasing water content, whereas in dodecane, tetradecane, hexadecane, cyclohexane, and toluene only one clear-turbid transition was seen. Separation...

The effects of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon derivatives as growth substrates on the polar lipid fractions of an Acinetobacter isolate were studied. Tetradecane, hexadecane, and octadecane resulted in the incorporation of substantial quantities of equivalent-chain-length fatty acids into cellular lipids. Cells cultured on nonane, the only odd-numbered alkane tested, contained both odd- and even-...

The purpose of this study was to determine the possibility obtaining liquid paraffins on basis by-products available in local chemical industry, and compare product with industrial apolar wound agents process silvinite flotation. experiments were performed a secondary - hexane solution pyrocondensate. A technological sequence reagent use increase efficiency flotation is proposed. In order proce...

We introduce a lateral atomic force microscopy (AFM) method to measure the hydrodynamic drag force acting on a microscopic emulsion droplet moving parallel to a flat surface. A tetradecane oil droplet formed in an aqueous solution of sodium dodecylsulfate was attached to a V-shaped atomic force microscopy cantilever, and lateral hydrodynamic interactions between the droplet and a flat glass sur...

A neutron diffraction method applicable to nonlamellar phases of substrate-supported lipid membranes is described and validated. When prepared on a flat substrate, the resulting nonlamellar phases have layered symmetry which provides some advantages over powder diffraction for detailed structure determination. This approach recently led to the detection of a rhombohedral phase and a distorted h...

A method was developed to track the distributional preferences of phospholipids in polymorphism based on sideband analyses of the 31P magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectra. The method was applied to lipid mixtures containing phosphatidylcholine (PtdCho), phosphatidylethanolamine (PtdEtn) and either cholesterol (Chol) or tetradecane, as well as mixtures containing the anionic p...