AVS 53rd International Symposium
    Biomaterial Interfaces Wednesday Sessions
       Session BI-WeM

Paper BI-WeM4
Proteo-Phospholipid Assemblies on Nanotextured Surfaces

Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 9:00 am, Room 2014

Session: Bio-interfacial Modification and Bio-Immobilization I (Honoring Marcus Textor, ETH-Zürich for Substantial Contributions to the Field)
Presenter: G.P. Lopez, University of New Mexico
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This talk will describe our recent efforts to develop methods for incorporation of transmembrane proteins, peptides and receptors in new types of lipid bilayer assemblies supported on nanotextured substrates. Substrates investigated include those fabricated by synthetic (i.e., bottom-up) methods based, for example, on molecular self-assembly and reductive (top-down) nanolithographic methods. Several methods for incorporating tethered receptors, transmembrane proteins and peptides into phospholipids architectures will be presented and methods for characterizing these assemblies will be discussed. The potential for such supported and suspended bilayer assemblies in biotechnological applications will also be suggested.