Self-assembly of Lipid A-phosphates: Supramolecular Liquid Crystals - Natural Polymers, Biopolymers, Biomaterials, and Their Composites, Blends, and IPNs - page 281

ordered assemblies as well as their interactions with CAM, and the resistance against
antibiotics where gram-negative bacteria are involved. Furthermore, the structure of
the lipid A-diphosphate rod as prepared at pH 8.0 can be explained as truncated large
dodecahedra. Due to the low ionic strength and pH 8.0, at the decahedral site nucle-
ation started and the growth is suppressed and can only take place along the direction,
that is the 5-fold axis, resulting in well ordered long rods.

KeyWords

• a-diphosphate

• Cationic antimicrobial

• Gram-negative

• lipopolysaccharides

• tumor necrosis factor