Interaction, Lipid Exchange, and Effect of Vesicle Size in Systems of Oppositely Charged Vesicles

Autor: and Liliane Lacombe, Danièle Raison, Valérie Marchi-Artzner, Jean-Marie Lehn, Ludovic Jullien, Luc Belloni
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 100:13844-13856
ISSN: 1541-5740
0022-3654
Popis: The interactions between charged unilamellar vesicles of different size prepared from mixtures of egg lecithin (EPC1), cholesterol, and a charged component, either stearylamine or dicetyl phosphate, were investigated. Several techniques, i.e. fluorescence spectroscopy, 133Cs-NMR, light scattering measurements, and electron and optical microscopies in dilute aqueous solutions, provided evidence that vesicles bearing opposite charges interact via contact followed by lipid exchange; the progressive charge neutralization is shown by 133Cs-NMR to occur without fusion of vesicle internal pools. Vesicle size determines as diverse features as contact duration, extent of lipid exchange, and final distribution of surface charge among the vesicle mixture.
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