Issue 89, 2014
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Emulsions stabilized by mini cyclic proteins for bioactive compound delivery†

Wenyan Xu,‡a   Bo Wang,‡ab   Yuan Lin,*a   Yuhua Li,b   Zhaohui Su,a   Wenjun He,c   Ninghua Tan*c  and  Qian Wangad  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, P.R. China
E-mail: linyuan@ciac.jl.cn

b College of Life Science, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China

c State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, P.R. China
E-mail: nhtan@mail.kib.ac.cn

d Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208, USA

Abstract

Mini cyclic proteins, members of the family of cyclotides, can stabilize oil-in-water emulsions by forming a single layer assembly at the oil–water interface. Such emulsions can be potentially employed to deliver hydrophobic bioactive cargos.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA09291K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
26 Aug 2014
Accepted
18 Sep 2014
First published
19 Sep 2014

RSC Adv., 2014,4, 48000-48003

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Emulsions stabilized by mini cyclic proteins for bioactive compound delivery

W. Xu, B. Wang, Y. Lin, Y. Li, Z. Su, W. He, N. Tan and Q. Wang, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 48000 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA09291K

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