Henna Ohvo-Rekilä

14.9.2001
Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacy, Åbo Akademi University, Turku

Characterization of cyclodextrins as tools to study lipid interactions in membranes

Reviewers:

Docent Pentti Somerharju, Department of Medical Chemistry, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Docent Elina Ikonen, Department of Biochemistry, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Opponent:

Professor Rhoderick E. Brown, The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin, USA

Custos:

Professor J. Peter Slotte, Dept. of Biochemistry and Pharmacy, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Publications:

  1. Ohvo, Henna, and J. Peter Slotte. Cyclodextrin-mediated removal of sterols from nonolayers: Effects of sterol structure and phospholipids on desorption rate. Biochemistry 35: 8018-8024, 1996.

  2. Zhong*, Ning, Henna Ohvo-Rekilä*, Bodil Ramstedt, J. Peter Slotte, and Robert Bittman. Selective removal of palmitic acid from Lngmuir monolayers by complexation with new quaternary ammonium b-cyclodextrin derivatives. Langmuir, 17:5319-5323, 2001.

  3. Ohvo-Rekilä, Henna, Peter Mattjus, and J. Peter Slotte. The influence of hydrophobic mismatch on androsterol/phosphatidylcholine interactions in model membranes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1372:331-338, 1998.

  4. Ohvo-Rekilä, Henna, Björn Åkekrlund, and J. Peter Slotte. Cyclodextrin-catalyzed extraction of fluorescent sterols from monolayer membranes and small unilamellar vesicles. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 105:167-178,2000.

  5. Ohvo, Henna, Carita Olsio, and J. Peter Slotte. Effects of sphingomyelin and phosphatidylcholine degradation on cyclodextrin-mediated cholelsterol efflux in cultured fibroblasts. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1349:131-141, 1997.
*equal contribution