Kinetic Study on Giant Vesicle Formation with Electroformation Method Export

@article{Shimanouchi2009, abstract = {Giant vesicles (GVs) composed of zwitterionic phospholipids were prepared by the electroformation method. The growth behavior of GVs was quantitatively analyzed as a first-order kinetics of the radius of GVs to obtain the apparent growth rate constant kGr. On the basis of the dependence of the kGr value on the preparation temperature and the lipid composition of GVs, the membrane fluidity of vesicle membranes was found to be dominant in the growth behavior of GVs. The comparison of the kGr values with the membrane fluidity for GVs suggested the validity of the model that the swelling of the lipid membrane could induce the growth of GVs.}, author = {Shimanouchi, Toshinori and Umakoshi, Hiroshi and Kuboi, Ryoichi}, citeulike-article-id = {4254757}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la8040488}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la8040488}, doi = {10.1021/la8040488}, journal = {Langmuir}, keywords = {amphiphiles, biophysics, electroformation, lipid, vesicle}, number = {0}, posted-at = {2009-04-29 17:22:29}, priority = {2}, title = {Kinetic Study on Giant Vesicle Formation with Electroformation Method}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la8040488}, volume = {0}, year = {0000} }

TY - JOUR ID - Shimanouchi2009 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4254757 N2 - Giant vesicles (GVs) composed of zwitterionic phospholipids were prepared by the electroformation method. The growth behavior of GVs was quantitatively analyzed as a first-order kinetics of the radius of GVs to obtain the apparent growth rate constant kGr. On the basis of the dependence of the kGr value on the preparation temperature and the lipid composition of GVs, the membrane fluidity of vesicle membranes was found to be dominant in the growth behavior of GVs. The comparison of the kGr values with the membrane fluidity for GVs suggested the validity of the model that the swelling of the lipid membrane could induce the growth of GVs. IS - 0 JF - Langmuir TI - Kinetic Study on Giant Vesicle Formation with Electroformation Method VL - 0 KW - amphiphiles KW - biophysics KW - electroformation KW - lipid KW - vesicle AU - Shimanouchi, Toshinori AU - Umakoshi, Hiroshi AU - Kuboi, Ryoichi PY - 2000/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la8040488 ER -