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Three-phase coexistence in binary charged lipid membranes in hypotonic solution
Jingyu Guo, Hiroaki Ito, Yuji Higuchi +3
We investigated the phase separation of dioleoylphosphatidylserine (DOPS) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) in giant unilamellar vesicles in hypotonic solution using fluore…
Spontaneous deformation and fission of oil droplets on an aqueous surfactant solution
Masahide Okada, Yutaka Sumino, Hiroaki Ito +1
We investigated the spontaneous deformation and fission of a tetradecane droplet containing palmitic acid (PA) on a stearyltrimethylammonium chloride (STAC) aqueous solution. In th…
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation for uptake of nanoparticles into a charged lipid vesicle dominated by electrostatic interactions
Naofumi Shimokawa, Hiroaki Ito, Yuji Higuchi
We use a coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation to investigate the interaction between neutral or charged nanoparticles (NPs) and a vesicle consisting of neutral and negative…
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation of binary charged lipid membranes: Phase separation and morphological dynamics
Hiroaki Ito, Yuji Higuchi, Naofumi Shimokawa
Biomembranes, which are mainly composed of neutral and charged lipids, exhibit a large variety of functional structures and dynamics. Here, we report a coarse-grained molecular dyn…
Wrinkling of a spherical lipid interface induced by actomyosin cortex
Hiroaki Ito, Yukinori Nishigami, Seiji Sonobe +1
Actomyosin actively generates contractile forces that provide the plasma membrane with the deformation stresses essential to carry out biological processes. Although the contractil…
Coupling between pore formation and phase separation in charged lipid membranes
Hiroki Himeno, Hiroaki Ito, Yuji Higuchi +3
We investigated the effect of charge on the membrane morphology of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) composed of various mixtures containing charged lipids. We observed the membran…