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Raspberry vesicles
Anne-Laure Bernard1, Marie-Alice Guedeau-Boudeville, Ludovic Jullien
1Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, CNRS URA 792, Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
|December 19, 2002
Abstract:
We present a method to control the osmotic stress of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUV) and we report an original shrinkage mode of the vesicles: the volume reduction is accompanied by the formation of inverted daughter vesicles which gives the shrunk vesicles the appearance of raspberries. We analyze this peculiar shrinkage and we propose some physical origins for the observed phenomena.