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ArticleLangmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids2021

Cubic and Hexagonal Mesophases for Protein Encapsulation: Structural Effects of Insulin Confinement.

Paola Astolfi, Elisabetta Giorgini, Diego Romano Perinelli, Francesco Vita, Fabrizio Corrado Adamo, Serena Logrippo, Marco Parlapiano, Giulia Bonacucina, Stefania Pucciarelli, Oriano Francescangeli and 2 more

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Article in Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 2021. 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
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Paola AstolfiDipartimento SIMAU, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3226-082X
Elisabetta GiorginiDipartimento DISVA, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0503-5870
Diego Romano PerinelliScuola di Scienze del Farmaco e dei Prodotti della Salute, Università di Camerino, Via Gentile III da Varano, 62032 Camerino, Macerata, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7686-4150
Francesco VitaDipartimento SIMAU, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.
Fabrizio Corrado AdamoDipartimento SIMAU, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.
Serena LogrippoDipartimento SIMAU, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.
Marco ParlapianoDipartimento SIMAU, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.
Giulia BonacucinaScuola di Scienze del Farmaco e dei Prodotti della Salute, Università di Camerino, Via Gentile III da Varano, 62032 Camerino, Macerata, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8528-4166
Stefania PucciarelliScuola di Bioscienze e Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Camerino, Via Gentile III da Varano, 62032 Camerino, Macerata, Italy.
Oriano FrancescangeliDipartimento SIMAU, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.
Lisa VaccariElettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., S.S. 14-km 163.5, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2355-114X
Michela PisaniDipartimento SIMAU, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7487-7759
Marche Polytechnic University · ITUniversità di Camerino · ITElettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Monoolein-based cubic and hexagonal mesophases were investigated as matrices for insulin loading, at low pH, as a function of temperature and in the presence of increasing amounts of oleic acid, as a structural stabilizer for the hexagonal phase. Synchrotron small angle X-ray diffraction, rheological measurements, and attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy were used to study the effects of insulin loading on the lipid mesophases and of the effect of protein confinement in the 2D- and 3D-lipid matrix water channels on its stability and unfolding behavior. We found that insulin encapsulation has only little effects both on the mesophase structures and on the viscoelastic properties of lipid systems, whereas protein confinement affects the response of the secondary structure of insulin to thermal changes in a different manner according to the specific mesophase: in the cubic structure, the unfolding toward an unordered structure is favored, while the prevalence of parallel β-sheets, and nuclei for fibril formation, is observed in hexagonal structures.

Indexed as

InsulinProtein Structure, SecondarySpectroscopy, Fourier Transform InfraredTemperatureX-Ray DiffractionInsulin

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PMID34369787
PMCPMC8397388
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