Membrane Partitioning of Anionic, Ligand-Coated Nanoparticles Is Accompanied by Ligand Snorkeling, Local Disordering, and Cholesterol Depletion

Paraskevi Gkeka; Panagiotis Angelikopoulos; Lev Sarkisov; Zoe Cournia

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003917

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Membrane Partitioning of Anionic, Ligand-Coated Nanoparticles Is Accompanied by Ligand Snorkeling, Local Disordering, and Cholesterol Depletion

Paraskevi Gkeka ,

* E-mail: pgkeka@bioacademy.gr (PG); zcournia@bioacademy.gr (ZC)

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Panagiotis Angelikopoulos,

Affiliation Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory, Institute of Computational Science, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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Lev Sarkisov,

Affiliation Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Zoe Cournia

* E-mail: pgkeka@bioacademy.gr (PG); zcournia@bioacademy.gr (ZC)

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Membrane Partitioning of Anionic, Ligand-Coated Nanoparticles Is Accompanied by Ligand Snorkeling, Local Disordering, and Cholesterol Depletion

Paraskevi Gkeka,
Panagiotis Angelikopoulos,
Lev Sarkisov,
Zoe Cournia

Published: December 4, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003917

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existence of the stripy nanoparticles

Posted by raphavisses on 11 Dec 2014 at 09:47 GMT

Thanks for mentioning Cesbron et al "Stripy Nanoparticles Revisited", ref 18

Further evidence that the stripy nanoparticles hypothesis relies on an experimental artefact was published just two weeks before the publication of your article.

Stirling et al
Critical Assessment of the Evidence for Striped Nanoparticles
http://www.plosone.org/ar...

Competing interests declared: Last author of ref 18, co-author of Stirling et al

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existence of the stripy nanoparticles

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