PubMed · 15719906
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John A Pearce. 2004. Environmental perspectives.. https://doi.org/10.1080/08327823.2004.11688509
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Some properties and functions of water treated under magnetic field were examined. No change in properties of pure water distilled from ultrapure water in vacuum was observed by magnetic treatment. However, when the same magnetic treatment was carried out after the distilled water was exposed to O2, water properties such as vibration modes and electrolytic potential were changed. The degree of magnetic treatment effect on water was quantitatively evaluated by contact angle.
Much attention has recently been paid to the study of positively charged polypeptides as a possible carrier for therapeutic protein or DNA delivery to cells. In this study, we have investigated the translocation of positively charged copoly(Lys/Tyr) (MW=72000, DP=385) across lipid membranes constituted from egg-phosphatidylcholine (EPC), dioleoyl-phosphatidylethanolamine (DOPE), as well as soybean phospholipids (SBPL) using zeta potential method, circular dichroism spectroscopy (CD), electrophysiology technique, fluorescence spectroscopy, and confocal laser scanning microscopy. Results of zeta potentials show that copoly(Lys/Tyr) associate with lipid membranes and become gradually saturated on the membranes either hydrophobically or electrostatically or both. CD studies demonstrate that the copoly(Lys/Tyr) takes and remains beta-sheet conformation during its interaction with liposome membranes, indicating that the translocation process should be carpet-mode like. Data from the electrophysiology technique reveal that positively charged copoly(Lys/Tyr) can cause transmembrane currents under an applied voltage, confirming its transfer across lipid membranes. Fluorescence spectroscopy results display a three-step mechanism of translocation across membrane: adsorption, transportation, and desorption, which has been verified by results from confocal laser scanning microscopy. We provided the first direct observation that the positively charged polypeptides, copoly(Lys/Tyr), can translocate through SBPL and EPC/DOPE lipid bilayer membranes. In addition, we found that the translocation efficiency of copoly(Lys/Tyr) was higher on the EPC/DOPE lipid membrane than on the SBPL lipid membrane.
I show that the interaction of weak DC and ELF magnetic fields with contained ions cannot generate significant biological effects through changing the character of the ion orbits.