Bicellar mixtures have been used as alignable membrane substrates for the structural characterization of membrane-associated proteins. Most recently, it has been shown that bicelles can serve as nanocarriers to effectively deliver hydrophobic molecules to cancer cells with a 3- to 10-fold enhancement compared to that of chemically identical liposomes. In this chapter, a detailed preparation protocol, common structural characterization methods, the structural stability and the cellular uptake of bicellar nanodisks are discussed.
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Liu, Y., Xia, Y., Rad, A. T., Aresh, W., & Nieh, M. P. (2017). Stable discoidal bicelles: A platform of lipid nanocarriers for cellular delivery. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1522, pp. 273–282). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6591-5_22
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