Terhi Maula

14.03.2014
Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, Turku

Membrane Properties of Structurally Modified Ceramides - Effects on Lipid Lateral Distribution and Sphingomyelin-Interactions in Artificial Bilayer Membranes

Reviewers:

Docent Katariina Öörni, Wihuri Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland

MD, Docent, Juha Holopainen, Department of Opthalmology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Opponent:

Professor Félix Goñi, Unidad de Biofísica & Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain

Custos:

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

Publications:

  1. Maula T, Westerlund B, Slotte JP. (2009) Differential ability of cholesterol-enriched and gel phase domains to resist benzyl alcohol-induced fluidization in multilamellar lipid vesicles. Biochim et Biophys Acta. 1788:2454-61
  2. Maula T, Urzelai B, Peter Slotte J. (2011) The effects of N-acyl chain methylations on ceramide molecular properties in bilayer membranes. European Biophysics Journal 40:857-863
  3. Maula T, Artetxe I, Grandell PM, Slotte JP. (2012) Importance of the sphingoid base length for the membrane properties of ceramides. Biophysical Journal 103:1870-9
  4. Maula T, Kurita M, Yamaguchi S, Yamamoto T, Katsumura S, Slotte JP. (2011) Effects of sphingosine 2N- and 3O-methylation on palmitoyl ceramide properties in bilayer membranes. Biophysical Journal 101:2948-56.
  5. Artetxe I, Sergelius C, Kurita M, Yamaguchi S, Katsumura S, Slotte JP, Maula T. (2013) Effects of sphingomyelin headgroup size on interactions with ceramide. Biophys Journal 104:604-12