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Morphology of vesicles
Udo Seifert,Reinhard Lipowsky +1 more
- Vol. 1, pp 403-464
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The article was published on 1995-01-01. It has received 117 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Vesicle.read more
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Fundamentals of electroporative delivery of drugs and genes.
TL;DR: The physico-chemical theory of ME and electroporative transport in terms of time-dependent flow coefficients has been developed to such a degree that analytical expressions are available to handle curvature and ionic strength effects on ME and transport.
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Fluid lipid membranes: From differential geometry to curvature stresses
TL;DR: This review provides a comprehensive introduction into these concepts without assuming the reader's familiarity with differential geometry, and concludes with four more sophisticated applications: boundary conditions for adhering membranes, corrections to the classical micropipette aspiration equation, membrane buckling, and membrane mediated interactions.
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Wrapping of nanoparticles by membranes.
Amir Houshang Bahrami,Michael Raatz,Jaime Agudo-Canalejo,Raphael Michel,Emily M. Curtis,Carol K. Hall,Michael Gradzielski,Reinhard Lipowsky,Thomas R. Weikl +8 more
TL;DR: Recent results from theory and simulations indicate that the interplay of bending and adhesion during wrapping is strongly affected by the interaction range of the particle-membrane adhesion potential, by the shape of the nanoparticles, and by shape changes of membrane vesicles during wrapping.
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Coalescence of Membrane Tethers: Experiments, Theory, and Applications
TL;DR: This work quantitatively studied the process of coalescence that occurred when the separation distance between both vesicle-tether junctions became smaller than a threshold length and demonstrated that the measurements of the tether force and angle at coalescence directly yield the bending rigidity, kappa, and the membrane tension, sigma, of the vesicles.
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Membrane sculpting by curved DNA origami scaffolds.
TL;DR: It is shown that dependent on curvature, membrane affinity and surface density, DNA origami coats can indeed reproduce the activity of membrane-sculpting proteins such as BAR, suggesting exciting perspectives for using them in bottom-up approaches towards minimal biomimetic cellular machineries.
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Elastic Properties of Lipid Bilayers: Theory and Possible Experiments
TL;DR: A theory of the elasticity of lipid bilayers is proposed and it is argued that in the case of vesicles (= closed bilayer films) the only elasticity controlling nonspherical shapes is that of curvature.
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The minimum energy of bending as a possible explanation of the biconcave shape of the human red blood cell
TL;DR: The concept of bending energy adequately explains the shape of the erythrocyte and predicted a swelling sequence for a single cell which was similar to the observed series of Rand (1967) .
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Biological Membranes as Bilayer Couples. A Molecular Mechanism of Drug-Erythrocyte Interactions
Michael P. Sheetz,S. J. Singer +1 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that membranes whose proteins and polar lipids are distributed asymmetrically in the two halves of the membrane bilayer can act as bilayer couples, i.e., theTwo halves can respond differently to a perturbation.
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Spontaneous vesicle formation in aqueous mixtures of single-tailed surfactants
TL;DR: Spontaneous, single-walled, equilibrium vesicles can be prepared from aqueous mixtures of simple, commercially available,single-tailed cationic and anionic surfactants.
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Microemulsions and the flexibility of oil/water interfaces
P. G. de Gennes,C. Taupin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the elastic constant K describing the curvature elasticity of the interface is used to understand why a random structure of this type does not collapse into an ordered phase.