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Membranes, Volume 12, Issue 9

September 2022 - 86 articles

Cover Story: Cell membrane–drug interactions influence drugs’ in vivo behavior. However, these interactions are difficult to study due to the complexity of cell membranes. Lipid vesicles are non-complex tools that can be used to mimic membranes in physiological conditions. Thus, in this work, the interaction of an anticancer drug, bortezomib (BTZ), with cell membranes was evaluated using two models with distinct composition and complexity. The findings proved that the membrane’s complexity and composition are major factors influencing the BTZ–membrane interactions, which are mainly regulated by polar forces. Furthermore, these interactions were proven to induce changes in the membrane fluidity, which may promote its toxicity and facilitate drug efflux that mediates drug resistance. View this paper
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Articles (86)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,293 Views
20 Pages

17 September 2022

In this study, the behavior of permeate flux decline due to scale precipitation of calcium sulfate on reverse osmosis membranes was investigated. The proposed scaling-based flux model is able to explain that permeate fluxes attributed to three mechan...

  • Review
  • Open Access
77 Citations
8,878 Views
14 Pages

16 September 2022

Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that undergo fusion and fission. These active processes occur continuously and simultaneously and are mediated by nuclear-DNA-encoded proteins that act on mitochondrial membranes. The balance between fusion and fis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,652 Views
19 Pages

16 September 2022

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) can be directed to specific membranes based on differences in lipid composition. In this study, we performed atomistic and coarse-grained simulations of different numbers of the designed AMP adepantin-1 with a eukaryotic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,923 Views
14 Pages

16 September 2022

Microalgae have attracted great interest recently due to their potential for nutrients removal from wastewater, renewable biodiesel production and bioactive compounds extraction. However, one major challenge in microalgal bioremediation and the algal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,802 Views
15 Pages

16 September 2022

Composite membranes consisting of microporous tantalum-doped silica layers supported on mesoporous alumina substrates were fabricated using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) in both thermal decomposition and counter-flow oxidative deposition modes. Tet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,312 Views
11 Pages

16 September 2022

The permeability transition pore in mitochondria (MPTP) and the ATP-binding cassette transporters (АВС transporters) in cell membranes provide the efflux of low-molecular compounds across mitochondrial and cell membranes, respective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,501 Views
15 Pages

Behavior of Mebendazole during NF/RO Adsorption and Photolysis

  • Bruna Babić,
  • Darko Andrić,
  • Anamarija Farkaš,
  • Dragana Vuk,
  • Danijela Ašperger and
  • Davor Dolar

15 September 2022

The idea of using drugs from the benzimidazole group as potential antitumor agents is becoming increasingly popular and widespread in research. However, their use as antiparasitics and in cancer treatment will increase their already recorded occurren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,583 Views
12 Pages

15 September 2022

Loose nanofiltration (LNF) membranes with a molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) of about 1000 Da and high surface negative charge density have great application potential for drinking water treatment pursuing high rejection selectivity between natural or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,778 Views
15 Pages

14 September 2022

In this study, we aimed to provide systematic and critical research to investigate the shear performance and reveal the corresponding structural response and fracture characteristics of the monolayer GK membrane. The results demonstrate that the kiri...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,923 Views
12 Pages

14 September 2022

Electrodialysis with bipolar membranes (EDBMs) is a technology that offers a great potential for the introduction of the principles of a circular economy in the desalination industry, by providing a strategy for the recovery of HCl and NaOH from brin...

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