The modifying effects of the products of the equimolar addition of DL-alanine and m-alanyl-oc-alanine to fullerene CW on the structure and permeability of the lipid bilayer of phosphatidylcholine liposomes has been studied using the luminescence probe technique. It is shown that these water soluble amino acid and dipeptide derivatives of fullerene (C,-AD) are quenchers of pyrene fluorescence and erythrosine phosphorescence of in both a water solution and liposomes. To study the permeability of the lipid hilayer a procedure based on the triplet probe technique has been developed. It has been found that the &-AD derivatives under study are able to localize inside the artificial membrane, to penetrate into the liposomes through the lipid hilayer and to perform activated transmembrane transport of bivalent metal ions.
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