Wrapping of Microparticles by Floppy Lipid Vesicles

Autor: Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Eric R. Dufresne, Hendrik Th. Spanke, Maria Feofilova, Robert W. Style, Holger Kress, Manuel Eisentraut, Claire François-Martin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Physical Review Letters, 125 (19)
ISSN: 0031-9007
Popis: Lipid membranes, the barrier defining living cells and many of their subcompartments, bind to a wide variety of nano- and micrometer sized objects. In the presence of strong adhesive forces, membranes can strongly deform and wrap the particles, an essential step in crossing the membrane for a variety of healthy and disease-related processes. A large body of theoretical and numerical work has focused on identifying the physical properties that underly wrapping. Using a model system of micron-sized colloidal particles and giant unilamellar lipid vesicles with tunable adhesive forces, we measure a wrapping phase diagram and make quantitative comparisons to theoretical models. Our data are consistent with a model of membrane-particle interactions accounting for the adhesive energy per unit area, membrane bending rigidity, particle size, and vesicle radius. © 2020 American Physical Society. ISSN:0031-9007 ISSN:1079-7114
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