Osmotic Gradients Induce Bio-reminiscent Morphological Transformations in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles

We report observations of large-scale, in-plane and out-of-plane membrane deformations in giant uni- and multilamellar vesicles composed of binary and ternary lipid mixtures in the presence of net transvesicular osmotic gradients. The lipid mixtures we examined consisted of binary mixtures of DOPC a...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Physiology
Main Authors:	Kamila eOglecka, Jeremy eSanborn, Atul N Parikh, Rachel Susan Kraut
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-05-01
Subjects:	Phase Separation Giant Unilamellar Vesicles Membrane plasticity Osmotic Gradients Vesiculation
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2012.00120/full