The hydrophobin DewA from the fungus Aspergillus nidulans is a highly surface-active protein that spontaneously self-assembles into amphipathic monolayers at hydrophobic:hydrophilic interfaces.
They are commercially available under the trade names Pluronics (BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany), Poloxamers (ICI, London, England), or Synperonics (ICI) and are highly surface-active compounds.
On the contrary, A6D must be classified as highly surface-active material, which can be exploited as a "tuneable inducer" of spontaneous membrane curvature.
Horses are unusual in producing protein-rich sweat for thermoregulation, a major component of which is latherin, a highly surface-active, non-glycosylated protein.
The sum of these findings show that DEPN-8 and Mini-B form an interactive and highly surface-active binary mixture, and support the continued development of related fully-synthetic exogenous lung surfactants containing novel lipids and SP-B peptides.
Pulmonary surfactant is a highly surface-active, complex mixture of approximately 90% lipid and 10% proteins [ 2, 3].
Some other studies also deliberated on highly surface-active compounds such as poloxamers or Pluronic that can self-assemble into spherical micelle.
Since the alkylammonium bromides are highly dissociated surface active salts, the decrease in internal pressure resulting from double layer repulsion could, in principle, be important.
