Rapid and Facile Preparation of Giant Vesicles by the Droplet Transfer Method for Artificial Cell Construction [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022 Giant vesicles have been widely used for the bottom-up construction of artificial (or synthetic) cells and the physicochemical analysis of lipid membranes.
Yasuhiro Shimane +4 more
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Chemical Analysis of Lipid Boundaries after Consecutive Growth and Division of Supported Giant Vesicles [PDF]
iScience, 2020 Summary: The reproduction of the shape of giant vesicles usually results in the increase of their “population” size. This may be achieved on giant vesicles by appropriately supplying “mother” vesicles with membranogenic amphiphiles. The next “generation”
Augustin Lopez +3 more
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Giant Vesicles Produced with Phosphatidylcholines (PCs) and Phosphatidylethanolamines (PEs) by Water-in-Oil Inverted Emulsions [PDF]
Life, 2021 (1) Background: giant vesicles (GVs) are widely employed as models for studying physicochemical properties of bio-membranes and artificial cell construction due to their similarities to natural cell membranes.
Boying Xu +3 more
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Shape Deformation, Budding and Division of Giant Vesicles and Artificial Cells: A Review [PDF]
Life, 2022 The understanding of the shape-change dynamics leading to the budding and division of artificial cells has gained much attention in the past few decades due to an increased interest in designing stimuli-responsive synthetic systems and minimal models of ...
Ylenia Miele +3 more
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Driven Engulfment of Janus Particles by Giant Vesicles in and out of Thermal Equilibrium [PDF]
Nanomaterials, 2022 The interaction between Janus colloids and giant lipid vesicles was experimentally investigated to elucidate the dynamics and mechanisms related to microparticle engulfment by lipid vesicles.
Vaibhav Sharma +2 more
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Synthesis of Non-Uniform Functionalized Amphiphilic Block Copolymers and Giant Vesicles in the Presence of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction [PDF]
Biomolecules, 2019 Giant vesicles with several-micrometer diameters were prepared by the self-assembly of an amphiphilic block copolymer in the presence of the Belousov−Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. The vesicle is composed of a non-uniform triblock copolymer synthesized
Isadora Berlanga
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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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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.
Naresh Yandrapalli +2 more
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Toward Experimental Evolution with Giant Vesicles [PDF]
Life, 2018 Experimental evolution in chemical models of cells could reveal the fundamental mechanisms of cells today. Various chemical cell models, water-in-oil emulsions, oil-on-water droplets, and vesicles have been constructed in order to conduct research on ...
Hironori Sugiyama, Taro Toyota
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Giant Vesicles Encapsulating Aqueous Two-Phase Systems: From Phase Diagrams to Membrane Shape Transformations [PDF]
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2019 In this review, we summarize recent studies on giant unilamellar vesicles enclosing aqueous polymer solutions of dextran and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), highlighting recent results from our groups.
Yonggang Liu +2 more
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