SELFAGGREGATION OF GLYCO-LIPIDS IN WATER - VESICLE TO MICELLE TRANSITION

Authors
CANTU L CORTI M DELFAVERO E
Citation
L. Cantu et al., SELFAGGREGATION OF GLYCO-LIPIDS IN WATER - VESICLE TO MICELLE TRANSITION, Journal of molecular liquids, 71(2-3), 1997, pp. 151-161
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Journal title
Journal of molecular liquids → ACNP
ISSN journal
01677322
Volume
71
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
151 - 161
Database
ISI
SICI code
0167-7322(1997)71:2-3<151:SOGIW->2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
An experimental study of the spontaneous aggregation geometry of siali c acid containing glyco-lipids, the gangliosides, in water solution is presented. Interestingly enough, it is possible to follow the transit ion from the energetically ''Frustrated'' bilayer type structures of p ure GM3 solutions to lower energy vesicular states and then to mixed m icellar solutions by progressively adding the second ganglioside GMI t o the initial GM3 solution. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.