Generation of phospholipid vesicle-nanotube networks and transport of molecules therein

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 791-805

  Jesorka, Aldo ^a   Stepanyants, Natalia ^a   Zhang, Haijiang ^a   Ortmen, Bahanur ^b   Hakonen, Bodil ^a   Orwar, Owe ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NANOPARTICLE; NANOTUBE; POLYMER; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOMIMETICS; ELECTROPORATION; IMMOBILIZATION; ION TRANSPORT; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE COMPONENT; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; METHODOLOGY; MICROINJECTION; MICROMANIPULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOFABRICATION; PHOSPHOLIPID VESICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOMIMETICS; ELECTROPORATION; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPIDS; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROMANIPULATION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBES; SOYBEANS;

EID: 79958077856     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.321     Document Type: Article

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