Towards redox active liquid crystalline phases of lipids: a monoolein/water system with entrapped derivatives of ferrocene

Lipophilic 1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives: synthesis and redox properties in solution and entrapped in the aqueous cubic liquid-crystalline phase of monoolein

“…Similar redox behavior has been observed for the ubiquinone-10 ( Razumas et al, 1998), for the vitamin K 1 (Caboi et al, 1997) and for the ferrocene derivatives (Barauskas et al, 2003) entrapped in the reversed bicontinuous cubic phase of space group type Pn3m (Q 224 ) of aqueous monoolein.…”

Nanostructured bicontinuous cubic lipid self-assembly materials as matrices for protein encapsulation

“…In addition Barauskas et al point out the potential of cubic phases with encapsulated redox active molecules for the investigation of electron-transfer processes in biomembranes. 45 In order to harness the potential of these prospective functional biomaterials (including cubic phases with protein encapsulated) for nanobiotechnological applications we must understand and control their chemical and material properties under the inuence of the encapsulated protein and associated detergents and buffers. As many current and potential applications will utilise these materials, either in vivo or in contact with biological material, Angelova et al suggest that studies must also be performed at aqueous salt concentrations relevant to bioassays of current interest, and with high enough aqueous concentrations to ensure that the protein remains fully hydrated.…”

Aqueous self-assembly of phytantriol in ternary systems: Effect of monoolein, distearoylphosphatidylglycerol and three water-miscible solvents

“…The cubic phase of MO can incorporate hydrophilic, lipophilic and amphiphilic substances of various size into its structure and has therefore been utilized for drug delivery [3][4][5], biosensors [6,7], drug partition studies [8], oligonucleotide electrophoresis [9] and membrane protein crystallization [10,11]. The addition of a third substance to a MO-water system may transform the cubic phase into liquids such as micellar and sponge phases [12,13], or liquid crystals such as lamellar, hexagonal, reversed hexagonal and other cubic phases, e.g., [14][15][16].…”