[HTML][HTML] Neutron scattering studies on dynamics of lipid membranes

M Nagao, H Seto - Biophysics reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Neutron scattering methods are powerful tools for the study of the structure and dynamics of
lipid bilayers in length scales from sub Å to tens to hundreds nm and the time scales from …

Structure and hydration of highly-branched, monodisperse phytoglycogen nanoparticles

JD Nickels, J Atkinson, E Papp-Szabo… - …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Phytoglycogen is a naturally occurring polysaccharide nanoparticle made up of extensively
branched glucose monomers. It has a number of unusual and advantageous properties …

Dynamic processes in biological membrane mimics revealed by quasielastic neutron scattering

L Lautner, K Pluhackova, NKH Barth, T Seydel… - Chemistry and Physics …, 2017 - Elsevier
Neutron scattering is a powerful tool to study relaxation processes in biological membrane
mimics in space and time. Combining different inelastic and quasielastic neutron scattering …

Partitioning of ethanol into lipid membranes and its effect on fluidity and permeability as seen by X-ray and neutron scattering

L Toppozini, CL Armstrong, MA Barrett, S Zheng, L Luo… - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a combined neutron and X-ray scattering investigation to study the effect of
ethanol on the molecular structure and dynamics of lipid membranes. 1, 2-Dimyristoyl-sn …

Nanosecond lipid dynamics in membranes containing cholesterol

CL Armstrong, W Häußler, T Seydel, J Katsaras… - Soft matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Lipid dynamics in the cholesterol-rich (40 mol%) liquid-ordered (lo) phase of
dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine membranes were studied using neutron spin-echo and …

Anomalous and anisotropic nanoscale diffusion of hydration water molecules in fluid lipid membranes

L Toppozini, F Roosen-Runge, RI Bewley… - Soft Matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We have studied nanoscale diffusion of membrane hydration water in fluid-phase lipid
bilayers made of 1, 2-dimyristoyl-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) using incoherent quasi-elastic …

Curcumin and Homotaurine Suppress Amyloid-β25–35 Aggregation in Synthetic Brain Membranes

X Zou, S Himbert, A Dujardin, J Juhasz… - ACS Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides spontaneously aggregate into β-and cross-β-sheets in model brain
membranes. These nanometer sized can fuse into larger micrometer sized clusters and …

Amyloid-β 25–35 peptides aggregate into cross-β sheets in unsaturated anionic lipid membranes at high peptide concentrations

J Tang, RJ Alsop, M Backholm, H Dies, AC Shi… - Soft matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the formation of protein plaques in the brain,
which mainly consist of amyloid-β peptides of different lengths. While the role of these …

Static magnetic fields enhance lipid order in native plant plasma membrane

D Poinapen, L Toppozini, H Dies, DCW Brown… - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We studied molecular order in native plant plasma membranes in the presence of static
magnetic fields. Plasma membranes of seeds of the tomato plant were purified, extracted …

Behavior of hydrated lipid bilayers at cryogenic temperatures

J Meineke, M Weik, G Zaccai, G Fragneto - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neutron diffraction was used to study the behavior of water present in phospholipid
multilamellar stacks from 1, 2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylcholine (DMPC) at …