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On-Chip Octanol-Assisted Liposome Assembly for Bioengineering
Published on: March 17, 2023
Interaction between complementary liposomes: a process leading to multicompartment systems formation
Constantinos M Paleos1, Dimitris Tsiourvas
1Institute of Physical Chemistry, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece. paleos@chem.demokritos.gr
Abstract:
Interaction of complementary liposomes induces a series of processes, involving reorganization of their membrane lipids, which lead to the formation of large aggregates. In several cases these aggregates exhibit multicompartment structures and only primitively mimic, in some aspects at least, the multicompartmental features of cells. Similar multicompartment structures were repeatedly obtained following the interaction of a diversity of complementary liposomal pairs. Thus, a working hypothesis is proposed, according to which, molecular recognition of liposomes induces the formation of multicompartment structures.
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