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Growth and instability of a phospholipid vesicle in a bath of fatty acids
Julien Dervaux, Vincent Noireaux, Albert Libchaber
Using a microfluidic trap, we study the behavior of individual phospholipid vesicles in contact with fatty acids. We show that spontaneous fatty acids insertion inside the bilayer…
physics.bio-ph2016★ 44 cited
Physical model of the genotype-to-phenotype map of proteins
Tsvi Tlusty, Albert Libchaber, Jean-Pierre Eckmann
How DNA is mapped to functional proteins is a basic question of living matter. We introduce and study a physical model of protein evolution which suggests a mechanical basis for th…