Katrin Halling

28.11.2008
Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacy, Åbo Akademi University, Turku

Effects of sterol, phospholipid and intercalator structure on the properties of lipid model membranes

Reviewers:

Docent Pentti Somerharju, Institute of Biomedicine/Biochemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki

Docent Katariina Öörni, Wihuri Research Institute, Helsinki

Opponent:

Professor Ilpo Vattulainen, Department of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere

Custos:

Mark S. Johnson, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacy, Åbo Akademi University, Turku

Publications:

  1. Halling K and Slotte JP. (2004) Membrane properties of plant sterols in phospholipid bilayers as determined by differential scanning calorimetry, resonance energy transfer and detergent-induced solubilization. Biochim Biophys Acta 1664:161-171.
  2. Halling KK, Ramstedt B & Slotte JP. (2008) Glycosylation induces shifts in the lateral distribution of cholesterol from ordered towards less ordered domains. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1778:1100-1111.
  3. Alanko S, Halling K, Maunula S, Slotte JP & Ramstedt B. (2005) Displacement of sterol from sterol/sphingomyelin rich domains in fluid bilayers by membrane intercalators. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1715:111-121.
  4. Halling KK, Ramstedt B, Nyström JH, Slotte JP, Nyholm TK. (2008) Cholesterol interactions with fluid-phase phospholipids: effect on the lateral organization of the bilayer. Biophys J. 95:3861-71