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ArticleRoyal Society open science2018

Aspirin locally disrupts the liquid-ordered phase.

Richard J Alsop, Sebastian Himbert, Alexander Dhaliwal, Karin Schmalzl, Maikel C Rheinstädter

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Richard J AlsopDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Sebastian HimbertDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Alexander DhaliwalDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Karin SchmalzlJCNS, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Centre for Neutron Science at ILL, Grenoble, France.
Maikel C RheinstädterDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0558-7475
McMaster University · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Local structure and dynamics of lipid membranes play an important role in membrane function. The diffusion of small molecules, the curvature of lipids around a protein and the existence of cholesterol-rich lipid domains (rafts) are examples for the membrane to serve as a functional interface. The collective fluctuations of lipid tails, in particular, are relevant for diffusion of membrane constituents and small molecules in and across membranes, and for structure and formation of membrane domains. We studied the effect of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid, ASA) on local structure and dynamics of membranes composed of dimyristoylphosphocholine (DMPC) and cholesterol. Aspirin is a common analgesic, but is also used in the treatment of cholesterol. Using coherent inelastic neutron scattering experiments and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we present evidence that ASA binds to liquid-ordered, raft-like domains and disturbs domain organization and dampens collective fluctuations. By hydrogen-bonding to lipid molecules, ASA forms 'superfluid' complexes with lipid molecules that can organize laterally in superlattices and suppress cholesterol's ordering effect.

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aspirincholesterollipid membranesliquid-ordered phasemembrane–drug interactions

Identifiers

PMID29515878
PMCPMC5830767
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