The molecular mechanism of the solubilisation of phospholipid bilayers by nonionic detergents was studied by turbidity changes, carboxyfluorescein fluorescence dequenching, steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy of DPH, lifetime measurements, ANS binding and 31P-NMR. Particular attention has been paid to the effective detergent-to-lipid ratio in the lipid phase. The disturbance ...

BACKGROUND Several workers have found that Malassezia are capable of suppressing cytokine release and downregulating the phagocytic function of monocytes. But lipid-depleted Malassezia furfur (M. furfur) extracts have also been shown to induce increased production of TNF-alpha, IL-6 and IL-1beta in monocytes. We thought that the detergents in shampoos or soaps could change the composition of th...

Refolding is one of the production technologies for pharmaceutical grade antibody fragments. Detergents and denaturants are primarily used to solubilize the insoluble proteins. The solubilized and denatured proteins are refolded by reducing the concentration of the denaturants or detergents. Several refolding technologies have been used for antibody fragments, comprising dilution, dialysis, sol...

Although proteins and lipids have been assumed to be distributed homogeneously in the plasma membrane (PM), recent studies suggest that the PM is in fact non-uniform structure that includes a number of lateral domains enriched in specific components (i.e., sterols, sphingolipids, and some kind of proteins). These domains are called as microdomains and considered to be the platform of biochemica...