Anders Björkbom

27.11.2010
Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Alterations in the Structure of Phosphosphingolipids - Effects on Membrane Properties and Interactions with Sterols.

Reviewers:

Docent Pentti Somerharju, Department of Biochemistry and Developmental Biology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Docent Juha-Matti Alakoskela, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology Imperial College London, London, UK

Opponent:

Professor Yechezkel Barenholz, Department of Biochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Custos:

Professor J. Peter Slotte, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Publications:

  1. Björkbom A, Ramstedt B, Slotte JP. (2007) Phosphatidylcholine and sphingomyelin containing an elaidoyl fatty acid can form cholesterol-rich lateral domains in bilayer membranes. Biochim Biophys Acta. Jul; 1768(7):1839-47. Epub 2007 Apr 18.
  2. Björkbom A, Yamamoto T, Kaji S, Harada S, Katsumura S, Slotte JP. (2008) Importance of the phosphocholine linkage on sphingomyelin molecular properties and interactions with cholesterol; a study with phosphate oxygen modified sphingomyelin-analogues. Biochim Biophys Acta. Jun;1778(6):1501-7. Epub 2008 Mar 18.
  3. Björkbom A, Róg T, Kaszuba K, Kurita M, Yamaguchi S, Lönnfors M, Nyholm TK, Vattulainen I, Katsumura S, Slotte JP. (2010) Effect of sphingomyelin headgroup size on molecular properties and interactions with cholesterol. Biophys J. Nov 17;99(10):3300-8.
  4. Björkbom A, Ohvo-Rekilä H, Kankaanpää P, Nyholm TK, Westerlund B, Slotte JP. (2010) Characterization of membrane properties of inositol phosphorylceramide. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2010 Mar;1798(3):453-60. Epub 2009 Nov 11.