Search Results - "Fanani, María L."
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Multidimensional Spectral Phasors of LAURDAN’s Excitation–Emission Matrices: The Ultimate Sensor for Lipid Phases?
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (26-06-2024)“…The impact of lipid diversity on the lateral organization of biological membranes remains a topic of debate. While the existence of domains in lamellar…”
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Exploring the Toxicity, Lung Distribution, and Cellular Uptake of Rifampicin and Ascorbic Acid-Loaded Alginate Nanoparticles as Therapeutic Treatment of Lung Intracellular Infections
Published in Molecular pharmaceutics (01-03-2021)“…Nanotechnology is a very promising technological tool to combat health problems associated with the loss of effectiveness of currently used antibiotics…”
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Membrane Restructuring Events during the Enzymatic Generation of Ceramides with Very Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
Published in Langmuir (10-04-2018)“…In rat sperm heads, sphingomyelin (SM) species that contain very long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (V-SM) become ceramides (V-Cer) after inducing in vitro…”
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Surface mixing of products and substrate of PLA2 in enzyme-free mixed monolayers reproduces enzyme-driven structural topography
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (01-09-2013)“…It was proposed that topographic changes in lipid monolayers hydrolyzed by lipolytic enzymes such as Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) are a consequence of enzyme…”
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Understanding the effects of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on the physical properties of brain lipid membranes
Published in iScience (19-07-2024)“…A deficiency in omega-3 fatty acids (ω3 FAs) in the brain has been correlated with cognitive impairment, learning deficiencies, and behavioral changes. In this…”
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Boundary region between coexisting lipid phases as initial binding sites for Escherichia coli alpha-hemolysin: A real-time study
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (01-07-2014)“…α-Hemolysin (HlyA) is a protein toxin, a member of the pore-forming Repeat in Toxin (RTX) family, secreted by some pathogenic strands of Escherichia coli. The…”
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Atypical surface behavior of ceramides with nonhydroxy and 2-hydroxy very long-chain (C28–C32) PUFAs
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (01-03-2014)“…Unique species of ceramide (Cer) with very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (VLCPUFA), mainly 28–32 carbon atoms, 4–5 double bonds, in nonhydroxy and…”
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Impact of sphingomyelin acyl chain (16:0 vs 24:1) on the interfacial properties of Langmuir monolayers: A PM-IRRAS study
Published in Colloids and surfaces, B, Biointerfaces (01-01-2019)“…[Display omitted] •Sphingomyelin (SM) structure is a key factor on membrane domain formation.•PM-IRRAS spectra of 16:0 vs 24:1-SM and mixtures with DOPC and…”
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Somuncurins: Bioactive Peptides from the Skin of the Endangered Endemic Patagonian Frog Pleurodema somuncurense
Published in Journal of natural products (Washington, D.C.) (24-04-2020)“…The skin glands of amphibian species hold a major component of their innate immunity, namely a unique set of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Although most of…”
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c-Fos is a surface pressure-dependent diverter of phospholipase activity
Published in Biochemical and biophysical research communications (26-07-2002)“…c-Fos, a transcription factor, associates to endoplasmic reticulum and modulates phospholipid biosynthesis. Its surface thermodynamic properties allow it to…”
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Composition-driven Surface Domain Structuring Mediated by Sphingolipids and Membrane-active Proteins: Above the Nano- but under the Micro-scale: Mesoscopic Biochemical/Structural Cross-talk in Biomembranes
Published in Cell biochemistry and biophysics (01-02-2008)“…Biomembranes contain a wide variety of lipids and proteins within an essentially two-dimensional structure. The coexistence of such a large number of molecular…”
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Surface Behavior of Sphingomyelins with Very Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Effects of Their Conversion to Ceramides
Published in Langmuir (22-04-2014)“…Molecular species of sphingomyelin (SM) with nonhydroxy (n) and 2-hydroxy (h) very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (n- and h-28:4, 30:5, and 32:5)…”
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Lateral domain segregation and phosphohydrolytic activity. What do the enzymes really do?
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Biochemical and structural information transduction at the mesoscopic level in biointerfaces containing sphingolipids
Published in Neurochemical research (01-08-2002)“…In this work we describe two aspects of molecular and supramolecular information transduction. The first is the biochemical and structural information content…”
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Interfacial behavior of glycosphingolipids and chemically related sphingolipids
Published in Current opinion in colloid & interface science (01-04-2004)“…Advances in understanding how glycosphingolipids and chemically related sphingolipids affect the structure and dynamics of bio-interfaces have been grouped in…”
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Mutual modulation of sphingomyelinase and phospholipase A2 activities against mixed lipid monolayers by their lipid intermediates and glycosphingolipids
Published in Molecular membrane biology (01-01-1997)“…Sphingomyelinase activity against pure sphingomyelin monolayers is constant up to a surface pressure of 18 mN/m and falls above it. Sphingomyelinase- and…”
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