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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.
Soichiro Tsuda +4 more
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Gel-Assisted Formation of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles [PDF]
Biophysical Journal, 2013 Giant unilamellar vesicles or GUVs are systems of choice as biomimetic models of cellular membranes. Although a variety of procedures exist for making single walled vesicles of tens of microns in size, the range of lipid compositions that can be used to grow GUVs by the conventional methods is quite limited, and many of the available methods involve ...
Weinberger, Andreas +8 more
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BMC Bioinformatics, 2022 Background Fluorescence image analysis in biochemical science often involves the complex tasks of identifying samples for analysis and calculating the desired information from the intensity traces.
Il-Hyung Lee +4 more
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A Note on Vestigial Osmotic Pressure
Membranes, 2023 Recent experiments have indicated that at least a part of the osmotic pressure across the giant unilamellar vesicle (GUV) membrane was balanced by the rapid formation of the monodisperse daughter vesicles inside the GUVs through an endocytosis-like ...
Hao Wu +2 more
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Materials Research Express, 2021 A methodology which provides a high efficiency of giant vesicle formation was established using the gentle hydration method and a microplotter equipment.
Juan R Avendaño-Gomez +3 more
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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
Patricia P. M. Mathiassen +2 more
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Electroformation of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles on Stainless Steel Electrodes [PDF]
ACS Omega, 2017 Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are well-established model systems for studying membrane structure and dynamics. Electroformation, also referred to as electroswelling, is one of the most prevalent methods for producing GUVs, as it enables modulation of the lipid hydration process to form relatively monodisperse, defect-free vesicles.
Valerio Pereno +6 more
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Rheology of vesicle prototissues: A microfluidic approach
Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Synthetic biomimetic prototissues with reduced complexity can facilitate the understanding of intricate biological processes, by allowing the role of specific physical or chemical mechanisms to be isolated.
Majid Layachi +3 more
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Thermodynamic relaxation drives expulsion in giant unilamellar vesicles [PDF]
Physical Biology, 2009 We investigated the thermodynamic relaxation of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) which contained small vesicles within their interior. Quenching these vesicles from their fluid phase (T>Tm) through the phase transition in the gel state ...
Leirer, C. T. +3 more
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Electroformation of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles from Damp Lipid Films Formed by Vesicle Fusion
Membranes, 2023 Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are artificial membrane models which are of special interest to researchers because of their similarity in size to eukaryotic cells. The most commonly used method for GUVs production is electroformation.
Zvonimir Boban +5 more
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