Amphiphilic receptors

Heterotopic Coreceptors — Cyclophane Receptors, Amphiphilic Receptors, Large Molecular Cages... 

Finally, some amphiphilic sweeteners, eg, aspartame, saccharin, and neohesperidin dihydrochalcone, have been shown to be capable of stimulating a purified G-protein direcdy in an in vitro assay (136). This suggests some sweeteners may be able to cross the plasma membrane and stimulate the G-protein without first binding to a receptor. This type of action could explain the relatively longer response times and the lingering of taste associated with many high potency sweeteners. 

Wang XL, Xu R, Lu ZR (2009) A peptide-targeted delivery system with pH-sensitive amphiphilic cell membrane disruption for efficient receptor-mediated siRNA delivery. J Control Release 134 207-213... 

In a series of papers, Kennedy and co-workers studied the amphiphilic networks and their membrane characteristics. The use of poly(pentamethyl)cyclopentasiloxane)32 as an oxyphilic cross-linker in the novel tricontinuous membranes, consisting of hydrophilic and lipophilic polymers, was reported.466 The presence of polysiloxane brought about high oxygen permeability, which was studied in the water-swollen membranes.467 The use of polysiloxanes as sorbents,468 and as carriers for the receptor molecules in the ion-exchange membranes,469 470 was reviewed. 

Similar to micellar assemblies in water, reverse micelles have also been utilized to bring about nonspecific binding interactions in organic solvents. Akiyoshi et al. (2002) have synthesized an amphiphilic block copolymer containing PEO and an amylase chain as receptor for methyl orange (MO Chart 2.2). Amylases are insoluble and methoxy-PEO (MPEO) is soluble in chloroform. Hence, an MPEO-amylase block copolymer forms reverse micelles in chloroform. Akiyoshi et al. established the capability of the buried receptors to extract the complementary analyte by studying the ultraviolet visible (UV-vis) spectra. A solution of polymer was shaken... 

Pattern recognition using cahxarene receptors that bind to proteins via surface electrostatic interaction has been used to identify a variety of proteins (Kolusheva et al. 2006). Amphiphilic calixarenes terminated with either amino or phosphate groups were incorporated into mixed PDA/phospholipid vesicles, which were incubated with various proteins that differed in their isoelectric points (pi). As expected, proteins with low pi values resulted in a large CR with liposomes containing cationic calixarene receptors. Each protein was characterized by a unique ACR value, where... 

Hess HA, Roper JC, Grill SW, Koelle MR (2004) RGS-7 completes a receptor-independent heterotrimeric G protein cycle to asymmetrically regulate mitotic spindle positioning in C. elegans. Cell 119 209-218 Higashijima T, Burnier J, Ross EM (1990) Regulation of Gi and Go by mastoparan, related amphiphilic peptides, and hydrophobic amines mechanism and structural determinants of activity. J Biol Chem 265 14176-14186... 

If supramolecular assemblies of amphiphilic carbohydrates can display cluster effects, the specific binding of the latter are also dependent on the presentation of the carbohydrate to the receptor, i.e. its orientation and conformation. 

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