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. 2023 Nov 6;6:241. doi: 10.1038/s42004-023-01043-9

Fig. 1. Building blocks for the generation of bioactive lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) and lipid-peptide liquid crystalline nanoassemblies.

Fig. 1

a Chemical structure of docosahexanenoyl plasmenyl glycerophosphoethanolamine (PL-DHA-PE), which is a PUFA-plasmalogen investigated as an exemplary bioactive vinyl ether phospholipid with neuroprotective and free-radical scavenging properties. b Aminoacid sequence of the neurotrophic pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP), a natural ligand of a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) receptor implicated in neuronal survival. c Chemical structure of the lyotropic non-lamellar helper lipid monoolein (MO). d Definition of the packing parameter (P) and typical P values for amphiphilic mixtures forming self-assembled liquid crystalline nanostructures of lamellar or non-lamellar types. e Topologies of vesicle, cubosome, hexosome, and spongosome types of lipid nanoparticles.