Lipid tail protrusions mediate the insertion of nanoparticles into model cell membranes

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Van Lehn, Reid C ^a   Ricci, Maria ^b   Silva, Paulo H J ^b   Andreozzi, Patrizia ^c   Reguera, Javier ^b   Voïtchovsky, Kislon ^d   Stellacci, Francesco ^b   Alexander Katz, Alfredo ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; LIPID; PHOSPHATE; SILICON; 1,2-OLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; GOLD; LIPID BILAYER; NANOPARTICLE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE;

CELL ORGANELLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL MEMBRANE; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID MONOLAYER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CELL MEMBRANE; GOLD; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NANOPARTICLES; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84904709166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5482     Document Type: Article

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