Changes to the persistence and composition of lipid rafts upon oxidation

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Lipids in cell walls are continually under attack from reactive oxygen species (ROS). It has been suggested that the presence of oxidized lipids influences the tendency of lipid mixtures to form rafts, something that could have major biological consequences. In this work we propose to study the effects of oxidation on the formation and stability of lipid rafts. We will form monolayers of a ternary lipid mixture known to form rafts and exposure the monolayer to an oxidant, ozone gas, thus forming an oxidized monolayer in situ. We will follow changes to the composition of the monolayer using specular neutron reflection combined with selective deuteration, and changes to the formation and stability of lipid rafts (order domains) using off-specular neutron reflection.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.47624983
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/47624983
Provenance
Creator Miss Joanna Hemming; Professor Jayne Lawrence; Dr Katherine Thompson
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Chemistry; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-03-24T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-03-27T00:00:00Z