Imaging coexisting fluid domains in biomembrane models coupling curvature and line tension

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6960, 2003, Pages 821-824

  Baumgart, Toblas ^a   Hess, Samuel T ^b   Webb, Watt W ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIPIDS;

BOUNDARY TENSION; FLUID DOMAINS; MEMBRANE FISSION;

CELL MEMBRANES;

ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CELL FUNCTION; ELASTICITY; FLUID TRANSPORT; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE MODEL; MEMBRANE VESICLE; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

CELL MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENT DYES; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPOSOMES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; PHOTONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0242331729     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02013     Document Type: Article

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