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Langmuir-monolayer methodologies for characterizing protein-lipid interactions. Chem Phys Lipids 2018; 212:61-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2018.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2017] [Revised: 12/22/2017] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Controlled lateral packing of insulin monolayers influences neuron polarization in solid-supported cultures. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2013; 107:59-67. [PMID: 23466543 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2013.01.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2012] [Revised: 01/24/2013] [Accepted: 01/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Neurons are highly polarized cells, composed of one axon and several branching dendrites. One important issue in neurobiology is to understand the molecular factors that determine the neuron to develop polarized structures. A particularly early event, in neurons still lacking a discernible axon, is the segregation of IGF-1 (Insulin like Growth Factor-1) receptors in one neurite. This receptor can be activated by insulin in bulk, but, it is not known if changes of insulin organization as a monomolecular film may affect neuron polarization. To this end, in this work we developed solid-supported Langmuir-Blodgett films of insulin with different surface packing density. Hyppocampal pyramidal neurons, in early stage of differentiation, were cultured onto those substrates and polarization was studied after 24 h by confocal microscopy. Also we used surface reflection interference contrast microscopy and confocal microscopy to study attachment patterns and morphology of growth cones. We observed that insulin films packed at 14 mN/m induced polarization in a similar manner to high insulin concentration in bulk, but insulin packed at 44 mN/m did not induce polarization. Our results provide novel evidence that the neuron polarization through IGF-1 receptor activation can be selectively modulated by the lateral packing of insulin organized as a monomolecular surface for cell growth.
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Langmuir films from human placental membranes: preparation, rheology, transfer to alkylated glasses, and sigmoidal kinetics of alkaline phosphatase in the resultant Langmuir-Blodgett film. Cell Biochem Biophys 2010; 56:91-107. [PMID: 20033626 DOI: 10.1007/s12013-009-9073-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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In the present study, we studied the activity of human placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) constraint in a planar surface in controlled molecular packing conditions. For the first time, Langmuir films (LFs) were prepared by the spreading of purified placental membranes (PPM) on the air-water interface and their stability and rheological properties were studied. LFs exhibited a collapse pressure pi(C) = 48 mN/m, hysteresis during the compression-decompression cycle (C-D), indicating a plastic deformation, and a compressibility modulus (K) compatible with liquid-expanded phases. A phase transition point appeared at pi(T) = 28 mN/m and, following successive C-D, it moved toward lower surface areas and higher K, suggesting the lost of some non-PLAP proteins as components of vesicles that might protrude from the monolayer (confirmed by combining lipid/protein molar ratio analysis, PAGE-SDS and V(max)). LFs were transferred at 35 mN/m to alkylated glasses to obtain Langmuir-Blodgett films (LB(35)) the stability of which was confirmed by AFM. The kinetics of p-nitrophenyl phosphate (pNPP) hydrolysis at 37 degrees C catalyzed by PPM was Michaelian and exhibited the thermostability at 60 degrees C typical of PLAP. In LB(35), PLAP exhibited a sigmoidal kinetics which resembled the behavior of the partially metalated enzyme but might become from a cross-talk between protein and membrane structures.
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DeVries GH. A career perspective on the discipline of neurochemistry. Neurochem Res 2008; 34:3-13. [PMID: 19109769 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-008-9889-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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De Tullio L, Maggio B, Fanani ML. Sphingomyelinase acts by an area-activated mechanism on the liquid-expanded phase of sphingomyelin monolayers. J Lipid Res 2008; 49:2347-55. [DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m800127-jlr200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Rosetti CM, Maggio B, Oliveira RG. The self-organization of lipids and proteins of myelin at the membrane interface. Molecular factors underlying the microheterogeneity of domain segregation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2008; 1778:1665-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2008.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2007] [Revised: 02/08/2008] [Accepted: 02/15/2008] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Maggio B, Borioli GA, Del Boca M, De Tullio L, Fanani ML, Oliveira RG, Rosetti CM, Wilke N. 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. Cell Biochem Biophys 2007; 50:79-109. [PMID: 17968678 DOI: 10.1007/s12013-007-9004-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/28/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Biomembranes contain a wide variety of lipids and proteins within an essentially two-dimensional structure. The coexistence of such a large number of molecular species causes local tensions that frequently relax into a phase or compositional immiscibility along the lateral and transverse planes of the interface. As a consequence, a substantial microheterogeneity of the surface topography develops and that depends not only on the lipid-protein composition, but also on the lateral and transverse tensions generated as a consequence of molecular interactions. The presence of proteins, and immiscibility among lipids, constitute major perturbing factors for the membrane sculpturing both in terms of its surface topography and dynamics. In this work, we will summarize some recent evidences for the involvement of membrane-associated, both extrinsic and amphitropic, proteins as well as membrane-active phosphohydrolytic enzymes and sphingolipids in driving lateral segregation of phase domains thus determining long-range surface topography.
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- Bruno Maggio
- Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - CONICET, Argentina.
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Monolayers prepared from myelin conserve all the compositional complexity of the natural membrane when spread at the air-water interface. They show a complex pressure-dependent surface pattern that, on compression, changes from the coexistence of two liquid phases to a viscous fractal phase embedded in a liquid phase. We dissected the role of major myelin protein components, myelin basic protein (MBP), and Folch-Lees proteolipid protein (PLP) as crucial factors determining the structural dynamics of the interface. By analyzing mixtures of a single protein with the myelin lipids we found that MBP and PLP have different surface pressure-dependent behaviors. MBP stabilizes the segregation of two liquid phases at low pressures and becomes excluded from the film under compression, remaining adjacent to the interface. PLP, on the contrary, organizes a fractal-like pattern at all surface pressures when included in a monolayer of the protein-free myelin lipids but it remains mixed in the MBP-induced liquid phase. The resultant surface topography and dynamics is regulated by combined near to equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium effects. PLP appears to act as a surface skeleton for the whole components whereas MBP couples the structuring to surface pressure-dependent extrusion and adsorption processes.
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- Carla M Rosetti
- Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, Córdoba, Argentina
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Lavoie H, Desbat B, Vaknin D, Salesse C. Structure of rhodopsin in monolayers at the air-water interface: a PM-IRRAS and X-ray reflectivity study. Biochemistry 2002; 41:13424-34. [PMID: 12416988 DOI: 10.1021/bi026004t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Monomolecular films of the membrane protein rhodopsin have been investigated in situ at the air-water interface by polarization modulation infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (PM-IRRAS) and X-ray reflectivity in order to find conditions that retain the protein secondary structure. The spreading of rhodopsin at 0 or 5 mN m(-1) followed by a 30 min incubation time at 21 degrees C resulted in the unfolding of rhodopsin, as evidenced from the large increase of its molecular area, its small monolayer thickness, and the extensive formation of beta-sheets at the expense of the alpha-helices originally present in rhodopsin. In contrast, when spreading is performed at 5 or 10 mN m(-1) followed by an immediate compression at, respectively, 4 or 21 degrees C, the secondary structure of rhodopsin is retained, and the thickness of these films is in good agreement with the size of rhodopsin determined from its crystal structure. The amide I/amide II ratio also allowed to determine that the orientation of rhodopsin only slightly changes with surface pressure and it remains almost unchanged when the film is maintained at 20 mN m(-1) for 120 min at 4 degrees C. In addition, the PM-IRRAS spectra of rod outer segment disk membranes in monolayers suggest that rhodopsin also retained its secondary structure in these films.
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- Hugo Lavoie
- Département de Chimie-Biologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
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Maggio B, Fanani ML, Oliveira RG. Biochemical and structural information transduction at the mesoscopic level in biointerfaces containing sphingolipids. Neurochem Res 2002; 27:547-57. [PMID: 12374189 DOI: 10.1023/a:1020203512287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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In this work we describe two aspects of molecular and supramolecular information transduction. The first is the biochemical and structural information content and transduction associated with sphingomyelinase activity. The results disclose a lipid-mediated cross-communication between the sphingomyelinase and phospholipase A2 pathways. In addition, the two-dimensional degradation of sphingomyelin by sphingomyelinase affects the surface topography and the latter modulates the enzyme activity. The second is the information contained in the compositionally driven lateral organization of whole glial and neuronal membrane interfaces. The myelin monolayer exhibits microheterogeneous topographical structuring and nonhomogeneous lateral thickness of phase separated regions, depending dynamically on the lateral surface pressure. On the other hand, the differential response of functional living cells depends on information contained in the molecular organization of the contacting membrane interface.
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- Bruno Maggio
- Departamento de Química Biológica-CIQUIBIC, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, Argentina.
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Oliveira RG, Maggio B. Compositional domain immiscibility in whole myelin monolayers at the air-water interface and Langmuir-Blodgett films. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2002; 1561:238-50. [PMID: 11997124 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(02)00350-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Monomolecular layers of whole myelin membrane can be formed at the air-water interface from vesicles or from solvent solution of myelin. The films appear microheterogeneous as seen by epifluorescence and Brewster angle microscopy. The pattern consists mainly of two coexisting liquid phases over the whole compression isotherm. The liquid nature of the phases is apparent from the fluorescent probe behavior, domain mobility, deformability and boundary relaxation due to the line tension of the surface domains. The monolayers were transferred to alkylated glass and fluorescently labeled against myelin components. The immunolabeling of two major proteins of myelin (myelin basic protein, proteolipid-DM20) and of 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase shows colocalization with probes partitioning preferentially in liquid-expanded lipid domains also containing ganglioside G(M1). A different phase showing an enrichment in cholesterol, galactocerebroside and phosphatidylserine markers is also found. The distribution of components is qualitatively independent of the lateral surface pressure and is generally constituted by one phase enriched in charged components in an expanded state coexisting with another phase enriched in non-charged constituents of lower compressibility. The domain immiscibility provides a physical basis for the microheterogeneity found in this membrane model system.
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- Rafael G Oliveira
- Departamento de Química Biológica-CIQUIBIC, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
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This study describes for the first time the amphiphilicity of the protein moiety of proteoglycogen. Glycogenin but not proteoglycogen associates to phospholipid vesicles and forms by itself stable Gibbs and Langmuir monolayers at the air-buffer interface. The adsorption free energy (-6.7 kcal/mol) and the glycogenin collapse pressure (47 mN/m) are indicative of its high surface activity which can thermodynamically drive and retain the protein at the membrane interface to a maximum equilibrium adsorption surface pressure of 21 mN/m. The marked surface activity of glycogenin is further enhanced by its thermodynamically favorable penetration into zwitterionic and anionic phospholipids with a high cut-off surface pressure point above 30 mN/m. The strong association to phospholipid vesicles and the marked surface activity of glycogenin correspond to a high amphiphilic character which supports its spontaneous association to membrane interfaces, in which the de novo biosynthesis of glycogen was proposed to initiate.
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- M E Carrizo
- Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba (CIQUIBIC), UNC-CONICET, Departamento de Química Biológica Dr. Ranwel Caputto, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina
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Oliveira RG, Maggio B. Epifluorescence microscopy of surface domain microheterogeneity in myelin monolayers at the air-water interface. Neurochem Res 2000; 25:77-86. [PMID: 10685607 DOI: 10.1023/a:1007591516539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Myelin lipids form liquid-expanded monolayers at the air-water interface, with no evidence of surface pressure-induced two-dimensional phase transition. However, the film doped with 2 mole % of the fluorescent probe N-(7-nitro-2-1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl) Diacyl Phosphatidyl-ethanolamine (NBD-PE) shows an irregular pattern of coexisting laterally segregated surface domains with diffuse boundaries that change from smooth patterns to fractal-like structures depending on surface pressure. Successive expansion-recompression cycles lead to more defined domains, with a general reorganization occurring at surface pressures of about 20 mN/m. At least two coexisting phases occur over almost all the compression isotherms. The presence of proteins in whole myelin monolayers induces defined domain textures with relatively sharp boundaries. The patterns during compression and expansion are quite similar and, after the first cycle, little changes occur under recompression. The patterns observed provide topographical evidence for the existence of dynamic domain microheterogeneity in the surface of myelin interfaces.
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- R G Oliveira
- Departamento de Química Biológica-CIQUIBIC, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
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Maggio B. Modulation of phospholipase A2 by electrostatic fields and dipole potential of glycosphingolipids in monolayers. J Lipid Res 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2275(20)32128-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Myelination is a multistep ordered process whereby Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS), produce and extend membranous processes that envelop axons. Mechanisms that regulate this complex process are not well understood. Advances in deciphering the regulatory components of myelination have been carried out primarily in the PNS and although the mechanisms for triggering and directing myelination are not known, it is well established that myelination does not occur in the absence of axons or axon/neuron-derived factors. This appears to be true both in PNS and CNS. Progress in understanding CNS myelinogenesis has been relatively slow because of the unavailability of a suitable culture system, which, in turn, is partly due to complexity in the cellular organization of the CNS. Though the myelin composition differs between PNS and CNS, the regulation of myelination seems to parallel rather than differ between these two systems. This article reviews the regulatory role of axonal components during myelination. The first half consists of an overview of in vitro and in vivo studies carried out in the nervous system. The second half discusses the use of a cerebellar slice culture system and generation of anti-axolemma monoclonal antibodies to investigate the role of axonal membrane components that participate in myelination. It also describes the characterization of an axonal protein involved in myelination.
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- S Raval-Fernandes
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Mental Retardation Research Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Oliveira RG, Calderón RO, Maggio B. Surface behavior of myelin monolayers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1370:127-37. [PMID: 9518579 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(97)00254-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Myelin can be spread as a stable monomolecular layer, with reproducible properties, at the air-water interface. The major lipids and proteins of myelin are represented in this monolayer in molar ratios similar to those in the original membrane. A well-defined collapse point of the myelin monolayer occurs at ca. 46 mN/m. At a surface pressure of ca. 20 mN/m, the surface pressure-molecular area isotherm of the myelin monolayer shows a change in its compressibility, exhibited as a diffuse but reproducible inflection with a clearly marked change of the surface compressional modulus; the surface potential-area curve shows a change of slope at the same surface pressure. The myelin monolayer shows considerable hysteresis during the first compression-decompression cycle; no detectable protein unfolding under expansion; and decreased hysteresis after the first cycle. The average molecular areas, the inflection at 20 mN/m, the variation of the surface potential per unit of molecular surface density, and the hysteresis properties of the myelin monolayer indicate that this membrane undergoes changes of intermolecular organization mostly ascribed to the protein fraction, above a lateral surface pressure of ca. 20 mN/m. The behavior is consistent with a surface pressure-dependent relocation of protein components in the film. This has marked effects on the stability, molecular packing, and dipolar organization of the myelin interface.
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- R G Oliveira
- Departamento de Química Biológica-CIQUIBIC, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ag. Postal 4, CC 61, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
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Calderon RO, Maggio B, Neuberger TJ, DeVries GH. Modulation of Schwann cell Po glycoprotein and galactocerebroside by the surface organization of axolemma. J Neurosci Res 1995; 40:349-58. [PMID: 7745629 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.490400309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The nature of the axon signal for the induction of proliferation and differentiation of peripheral glial cells is still unknown. Besides the existence of interactions among surface molecules the cellular responses can also be regulated by physicochemical parameters of the membrane. We have previously reported that planar axolemma monolayers coated on glass cover-slips at different defined surface molecular packing affected the Schwann cell (SC) morphology and their proliferative response (Calderon et al.: J Neurosci Res 34:206-218, 1993). In this paper we report that relative to SC cultured on uncoated coverslips, the level of expression of both glycoprotein Po and galactocerebroside (GC) (as revealed by immunofluorescence) was increased 2-4 times in SC cultured on axolemma monolayers with either high or low molecular packing. However, the cellular distribution of these antigens was profoundly influenced by the molecular packing density of the axolemma monolayer. SC cultured on an axolemma monolayer at high molecular packing showed preferential expression of Po at the SC surface whereas GC was concentrated intracellularly. On the other hand, SC grown on an axolemma monolayer at low molecular density GC showed preferential expression at the cell surface whereas Po was concentrated intracellularly.
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- R O Calderon
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298-0614, USA
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Maggio B. The surface behavior of glycosphingolipids in biomembranes: a new frontier of molecular ecology. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1994; 62:55-117. [PMID: 8085016 DOI: 10.1016/0079-6107(94)90006-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- B Maggio
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298-0614
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