Issue 51, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Amphiphilic COSAN and I2-COSAN crossing synthetic lipid membranes: planar bilayers and liposomes

Carmina Verdiá-Báguena,a   Antonio Alcaraz,a   Vicente M. Aguilella,a   Ana M. Cioran,b   Shoji Tachikawa,c   Hiroyuki Nakamura,d   Francesc Teixidorb  and  Clara Viñas*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Dept. of Physics, Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castelló, Spain

b Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC), Campus de la U.A.B., E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain
E-mail: clara@icmab.es
Fax: +34 93 5805729

c Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Gakushuin University, Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan

d Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology R1-13, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Japan

Abstract

The boron-rich cobaltabisdicarbollide (COSAN) and its 8,8′-I2 derivative (I2-COSAN), both of purely inorganic nature, are shown to cross through synthetic lipid membranes. These results reveal unexpected properties at the interface of biological and synthetic membranes.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC01283F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 Feb 2014
Accepted
24 Mar 2014
First published
24 Mar 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 6700-6703

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Amphiphilic COSAN and I2-COSAN crossing synthetic lipid membranes: planar bilayers and liposomes

C. Verdiá-Báguena, A. Alcaraz, V. M. Aguilella, A. M. Cioran, S. Tachikawa, H. Nakamura, F. Teixidor and C. Viñas, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 6700 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC01283F

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