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ArticleNature protocols2015

Construction of a liposome dialyzer for the preparation of high-value, small-volume liposome formulations.

Katarzyna Adamala, Aaron E Engelhart, Neha P Kamat, Lin Jin, Jack W Szostak

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Article in Nature protocols, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Preparation, Purification, and Use of Fatty Acid-containing Liposomes.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Katarzyna AdamalaMIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Aaron E EngelhartDepartment of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Neha P KamatDepartment of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Lin JinDepartment of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Jack W SzostakDepartment of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The liposome dialyzer is a small-volume equilibrium dialysis device, built from commercially available materials, that is designed for the rapid exchange of small volumes of an extraliposomal reagent pool against a liposome preparation. The dialyzer is prepared by modification of commercially available dialysis cartridges (Slide-A-Lyzer cassettes), and it consists of a reactor with two 300-μl chambers and a 1.56-cm(2) dialysis surface area. The dialyzer is prepared in three stages: (i) disassembling the dialysis cartridges to obtain the required parts, (ii) assembling the dialyzer and (iii) sealing the dialyzer with epoxy. Preparation of the dialyzer takes ∼1.5 h, not including overnight epoxy curing. Each round of dialysis takes 1-24 h, depending on the analyte and membrane used. We previously used the dialyzer for small-volume non-enzymatic RNA synthesis reactions inside fatty acid vesicles. In this protocol, we demonstrate other applications, including removal of unencapsulated calcein from vesicles, remote loading and vesicle microscopy.

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Chemistry, PharmaceuticalDialysisLiposomesLiposomes

Identifiers

PMID26020615
PMCPMC4982460
OpenAlexW1499250911

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