J. Thewalt Lab

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Laurdan

Sterols

Sphingomyelin and Cholesterol

Sphingomyelin and Ceramide

List of Publications

List of Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Brief, E., Kwak, S., Cheng, J., Kitson, N., Thewalt, J. (2009) 'Phase behavior of an equimolar mixture of N-palmitoyl-D-eythro-sphingosine, cholesterol, and palmitic acid, a mixture with optimized hydrophobic matching', Langmuir 25:7523-7532.

Chen, X., Kwak, S., Lafleur, M., Bloom, M., Kitson, N. and Thewalt, J. (2007) 'Fatty acids influence "solid" phase formation in models of stratum corneum intercellular membranes', Langmuir 23:5548-5556.

Hsueh, Y.-W., Chen, M.T., Patty, P.J., Code, C., Cheng, J., Frisken, B.J., Zuckermann, M., Thewalt, J. (2007) 'Ergosterol in POPC membranes: Physical properties and comparison with structurally similar sterols', Biophys. J. 92:1606-1615.

Henriksen, J.R., Rowat, A.C., Brief, E., Hsueh, Y.-W., Thewalt, J.L., Zuckermann, M.J. and Ipsen, J.H. (2006) 'Universal behavior of membranes with sterols', Biophys. J. 90:1639-49.

Rowat, A., Kitson, N. and Thewalt, J. (2006) 'Interactions of oleic acid and model stratum corneum membranes as seen by 2H NMR', Int. J. Pharm. 307:225-231.

Hsueh, Y.-W., Gilbert, K., Trandum, C., Zuckermann, M. and Thewalt, J. (2005) 'The effect of ergosterol on dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine bilayers: a deuterium NMR and calorimetric study.' Biophys. J., 88:1799-1808.

Hsueh Y.-W., Zuckermann M. and Thewalt, J. (2005) 'Phase diagram determination for phospholipid/sterol membranes using deuterium NMR', Concepts Magn. Reson. Part A 26A:35- 46. (Invited pedagogical article)

Hsueh, Y.-W., Giles, R., Kitson, N. and Thewalt, J. (2002) 'The effect of ceramide on phosphatidylcholine membranes: a deuterium NMR study', Biophys. J. 82:3089-3095.

Miao, L., Nielsen, M., Thewalt, J., Ipsen, J.H., Bloom, M., Zuckermann, M.J. and Mouritsen, O.G. (2002) 'From lanosterol to cholesterol: Structural evolution and differential effects on lipid bilayers', Biophys. J. 82:1429-1444.

Letters

Veatch, S.L., Leung, S.S.W., Hancock, R.E.W. and Thewalt, J.L. (2007) "Fluorescent probes alter miscibility phase boundaries in ternary vesicles" J. Phys. Chem. B 111:502-504.

Review Articles

Goni, F.M., Alonso, A., Bagatolli, L.A., Brown, R.E., Marsh, D., Prieto, M. and Thewalt, J.L. (2008) 'Phase diagrams of lipid mixtures relevant to the study of membrane rafts.' Biochim. Biophys. Acta - Mol. Cell Biol. Lipids, 1781:665-84.

Zuckermann, M.J., Bloom, M., Ipsen, J.H., Mouritsen, O.G., Nielsen, M., Polson, J., Thewalt, J., Vattulainen, I. and Zhu, H. (2004) 'Modeling Lipid-Sterol Bilayers: Applications to Structural Evolution, Lateral Diffusion and Rafts', in Numerical Computer Methods Part D, Methods in Enzymology (Eds. L. Brand and M.L. Johnson) Elsevier, San Diego, Volume 383:198-229.

Book Chapter

Hsueh, Y.-W., Thewalt, J., Kitson, N. and Moore, D. (2003) 'Stratum Corneum Lipid Structure: Insights from NMR and FTIR Spectroscopic Studies' in Skin, Hair, and Nails: Structure and Function (Eds. B. Forslind and M. Lindberg), Marcel Dekker, New York/Basel, pp. 65-83.