Dioleoylphosphatidyl-choline

Electroporation [250] in synthetic unilamellar dioleoylphosphatidyl-choline vesicles of 178nm diameter has been utilized for the preparation of PbS QDs. 3-10 A sized QDs are prepared by initiation of the opening of the pores between the Pb ions originally entrapped in the vesicles and S ions placed in the bulk [251]. 2.7 to 5 nm CdS nanoparticles have been prepared in a mixed vesicle dispersion formed using ionic surfactants, i.e., decyltrimethylammonium bromide and sodium 10-undecenoate [252]. The particle formation was achieved by exposing the vesicles containing the Cd (as a Cd complex of EDTA) to H2S. 

DMRIE l,2-dimyristyloxypropyl-3-dimethyl-hydroxyethyl ammonium bromide [25] DOPC dioleoylphosphatidyl choline, Choi cholesterol [26]... 

The use of lipid transfer proteins as tools for manipulating the composition of membranes is very promising. This has been done by incubating dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine or dioleoylphosphatidyl-choline with mitochondria (Guerbette et al., unpublished). The fatty acid composition of mitochondria was modified after incubation since palmitic or oleic acid became more abundant. This is due to an exchange of mitochondrial phosphatidylcholine with the liposomal one. It will be of interest to study the effects of the replacement of lipids on the functions of mitochondrial membranes. 

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