Spontaneous vesicle formation at lipid bilayer membranes

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1208-1214

  Edwards, David A ^a   Schneck, Faith ^a   Zhang, Ingrid ^a   Davis, Anthony M J ^b   Chen, Hongming ^c,d   Langer, Robert ^c,d  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; STREPTAVIDIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; EVAPORATION; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE VESICLE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0029737946     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79334-7     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Alberts, B., D. Bray, J. Lewis, M. Raff, K. Roberts, and J. D. Watson. 1994. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 3rd Ed. Garland Publishing, New York.
2. Barker, J. L., and H. Levitan. 1972. Science. 178:63-67.
3. Buyevich, Y. A., L. M. Rabinovich, and A. V. Vyazmin. 1993. ChemoMarangoni convection. I. Linear analysis and criteria of instability. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 157:202-210.
4. Deamer, D. W., and P. S. Uster. 1983. Liposome Preparation: Methods and Mechanisms. Liposomes. M. J. Ostro, editor. Marcel Dekker, New York, 27-51.
5. Edwards, D. A., K. J. Gooch, I. Zhang, G. H. McKinley, and R. Langer. 1996. The nucleation of receptor-mediated endocytosis. Proc. Nutl. Acad. Sci. USA. 93:1786-1791.
6. Enoch, H. G., and P. Strittmatter. 1979. Formation and properties of 1000-Å diameter, single-bilayer phospholipid vesicles. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 76:145-149.
7. Gutknecht, J., and D. C. Tosteson. 1973. Diffusion of weak acids across lipid bilayer membranes: effects of chemical reactions in the unstirred layers. Science. 21:1258-1261.
8. Hauri, H.-P., and A. Schweizer. 1992. The endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 4:600-608.
9. Hennenberg, M., T. S. Sorensen, and A. Sanfeld. 1977. Deformational instability of a plane interface with transfer of matter. Part I. Non-oscillatory critical states with a linear concentration profile. J. Chem. Soc. Trans. Faraday II. 73:48-66.
10. Hou, L., F. Lanni, and K. Luby-Phelps. 1990a. Tracer diffusion in F-actin and Ficoll mixtures. Toward a model for cytoplasm. Biophys. J. 58: 31-43.
11. Hou, L., K. Luby-Phelps, and F. Lanni. 1990b. Brownian motion of inert tracer macromolecules in polymerized and spontaneously bundled mixtures of actin and filamin. J. Cell Biol. 110:1645-1654.
12. Huang, C.-H. 1969. Studies on phosphatidylcholine vesicles. Formation and physical characteristics. Biochemistry. 8:344-351.
13. Leckband, D. E., J. N. Israelachvili, F.-J. Schmitt, and W. Knoll. 1992. Long-range attraction and molecular rearrangements in receptor-ligand interactions. Science. 255:1419-1421.
14. Luby-Phelps, K., P. E. Castle, D. Lansing Taylor, and F. Lanni. 1988. Hindered diffusion of inert tracer particles in the cytoplasm of mouse 3T3 cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 84:4910-4913.
15. Pimputkar, S. M., and S. Ostrach. 1980. Transient thermocapillary flow in thin liquid layers. Phys. Fluids. 23:1281-1285.
16. Sherwood, T. K., and J. Wei. 1957. Interfacial phenomena in liquid extraction. AIChE J. 49:1030-1034.
17. Soltesz, S. A., and D. A. Hammer. 1995. Micropipette manipulation technique for the monitoring of pH-dependent membrane lysis as induced by the fusion peptide of influenza virus. Biophys. J. 68:315-325.
18. Suarez-Isla, B. A., K. Wan, J. Lindstrom, and M. Montal. 1983. Single-channel recordings from purified acetylcholine receptors reconstituted in bilayers formed at the tip of patch pipets. Biochemistry. 22:2319-2323.
19. Sung, K. L., G. W. Schmid-Shonbein, R. Skalak, G. B. Schuessler, S. Usami, and S. Chein. 1982. Influence of physicochemical factors on rheology of human neutrophils. Biophys. J. 39:101-106.
20. Xiang, T., X. Chen, and B. D. Anderson. 1992. Transport methods for probing the barrier domain of lipid bilayer domains. Biophys. J. 63: 78-88.