Spontaneous shape transformation of free-floating lipid membrane nanotubes
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2013

Freely floating lipid nanotubes, up to several hundred micrometers long, were found to spontaneously contract in length, and eventually transform into stomatocyte-like structures. This transformation was largely driven by the high curvature energy. The nanotubes equilibrate their membrane leaflet areas, by folding into tubular stomatocyte-like structures without any significant volume change, but require a substantial interleaflet lipid transport rate, estimated to be as high as 0.01-0.001 s(-1). The rate of transformation was dependent on the fluorescent membrane stain used, and nanotubes labelled with a water-soluble styryl dye, FM1-43, transformed approximately five-fold faster than nanotubes labelled with the phospholipid conjugated dye Texas Red DHPE.

Författare

Natalia Stepanyants

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik, Fysikalisk kemi

HAIJIANG ZHANG

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik

Tatsiana Lobovkina

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik, Fysikalisk kemi

P. Dommersnes

Université Paris Diderot

Gavin Jeffries

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik, Fysikalisk kemi

Aldo Jesorka

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik, Fysikalisk kemi

Owe Orwar

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik, Fysikalisk kemi

Soft Matter

1744-683X (ISSN) 1744-6848 (eISSN)

Vol. 9 21 5155-5159

Ämneskategorier

Polymerkemi

Fysikalisk kemi

DOI

10.1039/c3sm50429h

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