Effect of the fluorination degree of partially fluorinated octyl-phosphocholine surfactants on their interfacial properties and interactions with purple membrane as a membrane protein model was written by Baba, Teruhiko;Takagi, Toshiyuki;Sumaru, Kimio;Kanamori, Toshiyuki. And the article was included in Chemistry and Physics of Lipids in 2020.Category: alcohols-buliding-blocks The following contents are mentioned in the article:
Interfacial properties and membrane protein solubilization activity of a series of partially fluorinated octyl-phosphocholine (PC) surfactants were investigated from the viewpoint of the fluorination degree of the hydrophobic chain. The critical micelle concentration (CMC), surface tension lowering activity, mol. occupied area at the CMC and free energy changes of micellization as well as adsorption to the air-water interface for each PC surfactant were estimated from surface tension measurements at 25 °C. The PCs with higher degree of fluorination exhibited low CMC and high surface activity, while the single trifluoromethyl group at the end of the chain appeared to enhance the hydrophilicity of the surfactant mol. Under conditions where conventional short-chain surfactants, n-octyl-β-D-glucoside, Triton X-100 and dioctanoylphosphatidylcholine significantly solubilize purple membranes (PM), none of the fluorinated-PCs solubilized PM. This suggests that fluorinated-PCs are low-invasive enough to maintain the structure of lipids/protein assemblies like PM. This study involved multiple reactions and reactants, such as 3,7-Dimethyloctan-1-ol (cas: 106-21-8Category: alcohols-buliding-blocks).
3,7-Dimethyloctan-1-ol (cas: 106-21-8) belongs to alcohols. Similar to water, an alcohol can be pictured as having an sp3 hybridized tetrahedral oxygen atom with nonbonding pairs of electrons occupying two of the four sp3 hybrid orbitals. Tertiary alcohols cannot be oxidized at all without breaking carbon-carbon bonds, whereas primary alcohols can be oxidized to aldehydes or further oxidized to carboxylic acids.Category: alcohols-buliding-blocks
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