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Journal for Biophysical Chemistry

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  2. This review is presented as a common foundation for scientists interested in nanoparticles, their origin, activity, and biological toxicity. It is written with the goal of rationalizing and informing public he...

    Authors: Cristina Buzea, Ivan I. Pacheco and Kevin Robbie
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20400166
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  3. Understanding and controlling cell adhesion to biomaterials and synthetic materials are important issues in basic research and applied sciences. Supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) functionalized with cell adhesio...

    Authors: Rémi Bérat, Murielle Rémy-Zolghadry, Céline Gounou, Claude Manigand, Sisareuth Tan, Carmen Saltó, Ernest Arenas, Laurence Bordenave and Alain R. Brisson
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20400165
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  4. Streaming potential/current measurements for the characterization of charge formation processes at solid/liquid interfaces were combined with reflectometric interference spectroscopy. The simultaneous determin...

    Authors: Ralf Zimmermanna, Toshihisa Osaki, Günter Gauglitz and Carsten Werner
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20400159
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  6. Protein resistance of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of hexa(ethylene glycols) (EG6) has previously been shown to be dependent on the alkoxyl end-group termination of the SAM, which determines wettability [S. H...

    Authors: Soeren Schilp, Alexander Kueller, Axel Rosenhahn, Michael Grunze, Michala E. Pettitt, Maureen E. Callow and James A. Callow
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20400143
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  8. This work describes the synthesis and the study of poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate) PHEMA hydrogels, cross-linked by poly(ethylene oxide)(PEO) chains containing the Gly-Gly-Leu tripeptide. This sequence was sel...

    Authors: Nawel S. Khelfallah, Gero Decher and Philippe J. Mésini
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20400131
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  9. Using a heterotelechelic poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) possessing a mercapto group at one end and an acetal group at the other end (acetal-PEG-SH), the authors constructed a reactive PEG tethered-chain surface o...

    Authors: Katsumi Uchida, Yuki Hoshino, Atsushi Tamura, Keitaro Yoshimoto, Shuji Kojima, Keichiro Yamashita, Ichiro Yamanaka, Hidenori Otsuka, Kazunori Kataoka and Yukio Nagasaki
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20400126
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  10. The adhesion force between blood-compatible polymer (poly(2-methoxyethyl acrylate: PMEA) and proteins (fibrinogen and bovine serum albumin (BSA)) were measured by atomic force microscopy. The PMEA surface show...

    Authors: Tomohiro Hayashi, Masaru Tanaka, Sadaaki Yamamoto, Masatsugu Shimomura and Masahiko Hara
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20400119
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  11. This work reports a novel tethered lipid membrane supported on silicon oxide providing an improved model cell membrane. There is an increasing need for robust solid supported fluid model membranes that can be ...

    Authors: Christian Daniel, Karen E. Sohn, Thomas E. Mates, Edward J. Kramer, Joachim O. Rädler, Erich Sackmann, Bert Nickel and Luisa Andruzzi
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20300109
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  13. The temperature dependence of the short-range water-mediated repulsive pressure between supported phospholipid membranes is calculated at two intermembrane separations using the grand canonical Monte Carlo tec...

    Authors: Alexander Pertsin and Michael Grunze
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20300105
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  14. The localized availability of bioactive biomolecules directly at the implant/tissue interface presents a promising strategy for improved wound healing and thus biointegration. Bioactive molecules that cannot b...

    Authors: Ping Peng, Nicolas H. Voelcker, Sunil Kumar and Hans J. Griesser
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20200095
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  15. The surface of an indwelling medical device can be colonized by human pathogens that can form biofilms and cause infections. In most cases, these biofilms are resistant to antimicrobial therapy and eventually ...

    Authors: Kenneth K. Chung, James F. Schumacher, Edith M. Sampson, Robert A. Burne, Patrick J. Antonelli and Anthony B. Brennan
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20200089
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  16. Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are mimics of oligonucleotides containing a neutral peptidelike backbone and are able to bind complementary DNA targets with high affinity and selectivity. In order to investigate ...

    Authors: Hyeyoung Park, Andrea Germini, Stefano Sforza, Roberto Corradini, Rosangela Marchelli and Wolfgang Knoll
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20200080
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  17. In this article the authors present techniques which allow the microfluidic design of alginate microgels with layer composition on a chip. The hydrogel is created by combining two laminar flows of the gel prec...

    Authors: Robert M. Johann and Philippe Renaud
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20200073
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  18. The interactions of fibronectin (Fn) with group B streptococci (GBS) were investigated using the atomic force microscope (AFM) and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensing. Submonolayer amounts of Fn were im...

    Authors: James R. Hull, Jared J. Shannon, Glen S. Tamura and David G. Castner
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20200064
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  20. A generic protocol for the creation of material-mediated self-assembled patterns of streptavidin, defined solely by patterns of gold and SiO2, is presented. Protein-adsorption resistance of selected regions was o...

    Authors: Rodolphe Marie, Andreas B. Dahlin, Jonas O. Tegenfeldt and Fredrik Höök
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20100049
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  22. Neutron reflectometry was used to investigate the structures of end-tethered protein resistant polymer layers based on poly(oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate) [poly(OEGMA)] and poly(2-methacrylo...

    Authors: Wei Feng, Mu-Ping Nieh, Shiping Zhu, Thad A. Harroun, John Katsaras and John L. Brash
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20100034
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  23. Surface-tethered biomimetic bilayer membranes (tethered bilayer lipid membranes (tBLMs)) were formed on gold surfaces from phospholipids and a synthetic 1-thiahexa(ethylene oxide) lipid, WC14. They were charac...

    Authors: Duncan J. McGillivray, Gintaras Valincius, David J. Vanderah, Wilma Febo-Ayala, John T. Woodward, Frank Heinrich, John J. Kasianowicz and Mathias Löscheb
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20100021
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  24. The concentration of mineral solutes in mammalian blood is considerably higher than that predicted by their solubility product. The plasma protein fetuin-A inhibits calcium phosphate deposition by forming coll...

    Authors: A. Heiss, W. Jahnen-Dechent, H. Endo and D. Schwahn
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20100016
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  25. The authors present in this paper how the extended Mie theory can be used to translate not only end-point data but also temporal variations of extinction peak-position changes, δλpeak(t), into absolute mass uptak...

    Authors: Ye Zhou, Hongxing Xu, Andreas B. Dahlin, Jacob Vallkil, Carl A. K. Borrebaeck, Christer Wingren, Bo Liedberg and Fredrik Hööka
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20100006
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  26. Living confluent fish fibroblast cells RTG-P1 from rainbow trout adherent on diamond were examined by attenuated total reflection ATR infrared IR spectroscopy. In particular, IR spectra were recorded dynamical...

    Authors: Martin Schmidt, Tobias Wolfram, Monika Rumpler, Carl P. Tripp and Michael Grunze
    Citation: Biointerphases 2007 2:20100001
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  27. A simple dipping process has been used to prepare PEGylated surface gradients from the polycationic polymer poly(l-lysine), grafted with poly(ethylene glycol) (PLL-g-PEG), on metal oxide substrates, such as TiO2 ...

    Authors: Sara Morgenthaler, Christian Zink, Brigitte Städler, Janos Vörös, Seunghwan Lee, Nicholas D. Spencer and Samuele G. P. Tosatti
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10400156
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  28. Synthetic inhibitors of trypsin-like serine proteases were covalently immobilized to polymeric materials to passivate coagulation enzymes during blood contact. The inhibitory potency of a structurally simple a...

    Authors: Marie-Françoise Gouzy, Claudia Sperling, Katrin Salchert, Tilo Pompe, Cordula Rauwolf and Carsten Werner
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10400146
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  29. Membrane protein microarrays are expected to play a key role in the future of drug screening and discovery. The authors present a method for the creation of functional heterogeneous vesicle arrays via DNA cont...

    Authors: Brigitte Städler, Marta Bally, Dorothee Grieshaber, Janos Vörös, Alain Brisson and H. Michelle Grandin
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10400142
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  31. Microparticulate carrier systems have significant potential for antigen delivery. The authors studied how microspheres coated with the polycationic copolymer poly(L-lysine)-graft-poly(ethylene glycol) (PLL-g-PEG)...

    Authors: Uta Wattendorf, Mirabai C. Koch, Elke Walter, Janos Vörös, Marcus Textor and Hans P. Merkle
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10400123
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  32. Peptide nucleic acid (PNA), a polyamide DNA mimic, has inspired the development of a variety of hybridization-based methods for the detection, quantification, purification, and characterization of nucleic acid...

    Authors: Hyeyoung Park, Andrea Germini, Stefano Sforza, Roberto Corradini, Rosangela Marchelli and Wolfgang Knoll
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10400113
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  33. Most of the mineral crystals in bone are platelets of carbonated apatite with thicknesses of a few nanometers embedded in a collagen matrix.We report that spherical to cylindrical shaped nanosized particles ar...

    Authors: Lijun Wang, George H. Nancollas, Zachary J. Henneman, Eugenia Klein and Steve Weiner
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10300106
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  34. Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of fully hydrated 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoylphosphatidylcholine (POPC), 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-phosphatidylethanolamine (POPE), and 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-phosphatidylglycerol (P...

    Authors: Krzysztof Murzyn, Wei Zhao, Mikko Karttunen, Marcin Kurdziel and Tomasz Róg
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10300098
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  36. Reliable, direct “sample-to-answer” capture of nucleic acid targets from complex media would greatly improve existing capabilities of DNA microarrays and biosensors. This goal has proven elusive for many curre...

    Authors: Chi-Ying Lee, Lara J. Gamble, David W. Grainger and David G. Castner
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10200082
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  37. In this study, we describe the attachment of biotin-functionalized β-lactamase to different types of interfacial architectures. Generic biotin-NeutrAvidin binding matrices were assembled using biotin-terminate...

    Authors: Fei Xu, Guoliang Zhen, Marcus Textor and Wolfgang Knoll
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10200073
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  38. The one feature that distinguishes mineralized biological from synthetic materials is the presence in mineralized biological materials of a complex assemblage of macromolecules. This assemblage usually acts as...

    Authors: Steve Weiner, Fabio Nudelman, Eli Sone, Paul Zaslansky and Lia Addadi
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10200012
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  39. The evolution of biological surface science can be credited to the development of traditional surface-chemistry tools and techniques to investigate molecular and atomic-scale bonding, structure, conformation, ...

    Authors: Ozzy Mermut, Roger L. York, Diana C. Phillips, Keith R. McCrea, Robert S. Ward and Gabor A. Somorjai
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10200005
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  43. Thorough studies of protein interactions with stimulus responsive polymers are necessary to provide a better understanding of their applications in biosensors and biomaterials. In this study, protein behavior ...

    Authors: Xuanhong Cheng, Heather E. Canavan, Daniel J. Graham, David G. Castner and Buddy D. Ratner
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10100061
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  44. The objective of this work was to compare poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and phosphorylcholine (PC) moieties as surface modifiers with respect to their ability to inhibit protein adsorption. Surfaces were prepare...

    Authors: Wei Feng, Shiping Zhu, Kazuhiko Ishihara and John L. Brash
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10100050
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  45. This article reports that the kinetics of surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization can be quantified by the quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) technique. The kinetics of in situ gr...

    Authors: Hongwei Ma, Marcus Textor, Robert L. Clark and Ashutosh Chilkoti
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10100035
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  46. The formation of highly ordered self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on gold from an unusually long and linear compound HS(CH2)15CONH(CH2CH2O)6CH2CONH(CH2)15CH3 is investigated by contact angle goniometry, ex situ nu...

    Authors: Ramūnas Valiokas, Mattias Östblom, Fredrik Björefors, Bo Liedberg, Jing Shi and Peter Konradsson
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10100022
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  47. When surfaces possessing gradients of surface energy are incubated with motile spores from the green seaweed Ulva, the spores attach on the hydrophilic part of the gradient in larger numbers than they do on the h...

    Authors: M. K. Chaudhury, S. Daniel, M. E. Callow, J. A. Callow and J. A. Finlay
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10100018
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  49. This study describes facile methods based on sol-gel processing for the formation of robust thin films that incorporate phospholipid bilayer membranes and transmembrane proteins as multilamellar assemblies in ...

    Authors: Gautam Gupta, Plamen Atanassov and Gabriel P. López
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10100006
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  50. The secondary osteon — a fundamental building block in compact bone — is a multilayered cylindrical structure of mineralized collagen fibrils arranged around a blood vessel. Functionally, the osteon must be ad...

    Authors: W. Wagermaier, H. S. Gupta, A. Gourrier, M. Burghammer, P. Roschger and P. Fratzl
    Citation: Biointerphases 2006 1:10100001
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