Chemistry and physics of lipids

Effects of molecular structures on the olfactory responses of phospholipid membranes to four alcohols

Q Zhou, Y Yang, Z Chen, A Sun

Index: Zhou, Qingzhong; Yang, Yanan; Chen, Zhikuan; Sun, Anna Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 1998 , vol. 95, # 1 p. 1 - 9

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Abstract

In order to understand the relationship between phospholipid molecular structures and their olfactory responses to odorants, we designed and synthesized four phosphatidylcholine analogues with different long hydrocarbon (CH) chains and selected three natural phospholipids with different head-groups. By using interdigital electrodes (IEs) as olfactory sensors (OSs), we measured the responses of the IEs coated with these seven different ...