Diosgenin-induced physicochemical effects on phospholipid membranes

• Main Authors: Ondevilla, Joan Candice V., Mukogawa, Akane, Hanashima, Shinya, Umegawa, Yuichi, Murata, Michio
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: Diosgenin—Physiological effect; Dioscoreaceae —Analysis; Membrane lipids; Biochemistry
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11548
• Institution: De La Salle University

Diosgenin (DGN), a plant sterol found in the family Dioscorea, attracts increasing attention for its various pharmacological activities. With the use of fluorescence and ssNMR spectroscopy, we examined the steroidal structural effect of the sterol on the physicochemical properties of phospholipid bi...