Alkanes are not innocuous vehicles for hydrophobic reagents in membrane studies

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-114

  Urbina, Patricia ^a   Alonso, Alicia ^a   Contreras, F Xabier ^a   Goñi, Félix M ^a   López, David J ^a   Montes, L Ruth ^a   Sot, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alkanes; Ceramides; Lipid phase transitions; Phospholipase; Sphingomyelinase

Indexed keywords

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CERAMIDE DERIVATIVE; LIPOSOME; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHOLIPID; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE VESICLE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALKANES; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 31844450169     PISSN: 00093084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2005.11.002     Document Type: Article

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