Osmotic Pressure Enables High-Yield Assembly of Giant Vesicles in Solutions of Physiological Ionic Strengths

Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are micrometer-scale minimal cellular mimics that are useful for bottom-up synthetic biology and drug delivery. Unlike assembly in low-salt solutions, assembly of GUVs in solutions with ionic concentrations of 100-150 mM Na/KCl (salty solutions) is challenging. Chem...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1999. - 39(2023), 15 vom: 18. Apr., Seite 5579-5590
1. Verfasser: Cooper, Alexis (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Girish, Vaishnavi, Subramaniam, Anand Bala
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Unilamellar Liposomes Lipids
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