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The thermotropic behavior of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) multibilayers containing up to 10 mol% of lyso-palmitoylphosphatidylcholine (lyso-PPC) with and without low content of poly(ethylene glycol:2000)-grafted dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine (PEG:2000-DPPE) has been studied by high sensitivity differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and electron spin resonance (ESR) using the spin probe di-tert-butyl-nitroxide (DTBN). The three lipids, dispersed in buffer at appropriate concentrations, form thermosensitive liposomes used as site-specific drug-delivery systems. Without polymer–lipids, the DPPC main transition temperature is downshifted of 1.2–1.3 °C at the highest lyso-PPC content. The molar enthalpy and the cooperative unit of the DPPC main transition first decrease rapidly, then more slowly and finally slightly increase with lyso-PPC content. Moreover, in the mixed dispersions, the membrane fluidity increases at any temperature. The addition up to 5 mol% of PEG:2000-DPPE to DPPC/10 mol% lyso-PPC mixtures does not affect neither the thermotropic phase behavior nor the transition cooperativity and the fluidity of the dispersions.
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M.P. thanks the Università della Calabria for a Research grant. This work was financially supported by Regione Calabria.
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Pantusa, M., Bartucci, R. & Sportelli, L. Calorimetric and spin-label ESR studies of PEG:2000-DPPE containing DPPC/lyso-PPC mixtures. Colloid Polym Sci 285, 649–656 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-006-1607-3
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