Shape Transformations of Lipid Vesicles by Insertion of Bulky-Head Lipids. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Lipid vesicles, in particular Giant Unilamellar Vesicles (GUVs), have been increasingly important as compartments of artificial cells to reconstruct living cell-like systems in a bottom-up fashion.
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Transbilayer movement of phospholipids in biological membranes is mediated by a diverse set of lipid transporters. Among them are scramblases that facilitate a rapid bi-directional movement of lipids without metabolic energy input. Here, we established a
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Pulling Membrane Nanotubes from Giant Unilamellar Vesicles. [PDF]
Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2017 The reshaping of the cell membrane is an integral part of many cellular phenomena, such as endocytosis, trafficking, the formation of filopodia, etc. Many different proteins associate with curved membranes because of their ability to sense or induce membrane curvature.
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On-Chip Inverted Emulsion Method for Fast Giant Vesicle Production, Handling, and Analysis
Micromachines, 2020 Liposomes and giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) in particular are excellent compartments for constructing artificial cells. Traditionally, their use requires bench-top vesicle growth, followed by experimentation under a microscope.
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Towards Better Cell Membrane Mimics: Cholesterol-Containing Supported Lipid Bilayers on TiO2 [PDF]
Biophysical Journal, 2012 Podeu consultar la versió en castellà a: http://hdl.handle.net/11703/116989Podeu consultar la versió en francès a: http://hdl.handle.net/11703 ...
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Rapid Multi-Well Evaluation of Assorted Materials for Hydrogel-Assisted Giant Unilamellar Vesicle Production: Empowering Bottom-Up Synthetic Biology [PDF]
GelsGiant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are versatile cell models in biomedical and environmental research. Of the various GUV production methods, hydrogel-assisted GUV production is most easily implemented in a typical biological laboratory. To date, agarose,
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Functional reconstitution of plant plasma membrane H+-ATPase into giant unilamellar vesicles [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMembrane transporters are essential for numerous biological processes by controlling the movement of ions and molecules across cell membranes. However, dissecting their molecular dynamics in complex cellular environments presents significant challenges ...
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Diphtheria toxin T-domain as a tool for inducing lipid vesicle fusion [PDF]
Communications ChemistryMembrane fusion is fundamental for many biological processes, including subcellular compartmentalization, cell growth, and exo- and endocytosis. It also plays a key role in the fabrication of artificial membrane structures, particularly vesicles. However,
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Facile generation of giant unilamellar vesicles using polyacrylamide gels [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are model cell-sized systems that have broad applications including drug delivery, analysis of membrane biophysics, and synthetic reconstitution of cellular machineries.
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Induced phagocytic particle uptake into a giant unilamellar vesicle.
Soft Matter, 2014 Phagocytosis, the uptake and ingestion of solid particles into living cells, is a central mechanism of our immune system. Due to the complexity of the uptake mechanism, the different forces involved in this process are only partly understood.
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