Max Lönnfors

28.11.2014
Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, Turku

Studies on membrane properties of cholesterol and 3-beta modified sterol analogs

Reviewers:

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

Dr. Reijo Käkelä, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Opponent:

Professor Erwin London, Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York, USA

Custos:

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

Publications:

  1. Lönnfors M, Doux JP, Killian JA, Nyholm TK, Slotte JP (2011) Sterols have higher affinity for sphingomyelin than for phosphatidylcholine bilayers even at equal acyl-chain order, Biophysical Journal 100; 2633-2641
  2. Lönnfors M, Engberg O, Peterson BR, Slotte JP (2012) Interaction of 3β-amino-5-cholestene with phospholipids in binary and ternary bilayer membranes, Langmuir 28; 648-655
  3. Lönnfors M, Långvik O, Björkbom A, Slotte JP (2013) Cholesteryl phosphocholine - a study on it interaction with ceramides and other membrane lipids, Langmuir 29; 2319-2329.
  4. Sukumaran P and Lönnfors M, Långvik O, Pulli I, Törnquist K and Slotte JP (2013) Complexation of C6 ceramide with cholesteryl phosphocholine - a potent solvent-free ceramide delivery formulation for cells in culture, PLoS. One. 8 p.e61290.