Solutions and powders formed from salmon sperm deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) reacted with the cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTMA-Cl) incorporated fluorescent rhodamine molecules: anionic sulforhodamine 640 (SRh) or cationic/zwitterionic rhodamine 640 perchlorate (RhP). The role of the cationic surfactant in the interaction between rhodamine dye and DNA-surfactant molecules ...

Spectral studies on the interaction of capsular polysaccharide (SPS) isolated from Klebsiella serotype K34, with oppositely charged dyes and surfactants have been reported. The SPS was acidic in nature and induced strong metachromacy (~110 nm blue shift) in the cationic dye pinacyanol chloride (PCYN) which was due to “card-pack stacking” of individual dye monomers on the surface of the polyanio...

The solution and interfacial behavior of surfactant mixtures was investigated using a cationic surfactant, tetradecyl trimethyl ammonium chloride (TTAC), and a nonionic surfactant, pentadecylethoxylated nonyl phenol (NP-15), with alumina as the substrate. The cationic TTAC adsorbed at the alumina-water interface as a result of electrostatic attraction at pH approximately 10 whereas the nonionic...

High osmolarity and glucose deprivation cause rapid shutdowns of both actin polarization and translation initiation in yeast. Like these stresses, administration of local anesthetics and of antipsychotic phenothiazines caused similar responses. All these drugs have amphiphilic structures and formed emulsions and permeabilized the cell membrane, indicating that they have the same features as a s...

Formulation composition has a dramatic influence on coacervate formation in conditioning shampoo. The purpose of this study is to correlate the amount of coacervate formation of novel cationic cassia polymers to the corresponding conditioning profiles on European brown hair using silicone deposition, cationic polymer deposition and sensory evaluation. A design of experiments was conducted by va...

Non-viral gene therapy based on silencing with small interfering RNA (siRNA) has attracted great interest over recent years. Among various types of cationic complexation agents, amino acid-based surfactants have been recently explored for nucleic acid delivery due to their low toxicity and high biocompatibility. Monoolein (MO), in turn, used as helper lipid liposomal systems its ability form in...

The interaction of a hydrophobically modified anionic polymer (PMAOVE) with a cationic surfactant (DTAB) was studied using a multi-technique approach: turbidity, surface tension, and viscosity measurements, as well as EPR (5-doxyl stearic acid) and fluorescence (pyrene) probe techniques were used. In the investigated pH range (4-10), the cationic surfactant headgroups interact with the anionic ...

Lacquer wax is an important fatty resource obtained from the mesocarp of the berries of Toxicodendron vernicifluum. In order to expand the applications of lacquer wax, we hydrolyzed it after establishing the best conditions for the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis using a Box-Behnken design. Then we synthesized a quarternary ammonium gemini surfactant by a three-step reaction. The surface properties o...