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A vesicle microrheometer for high-throughput viscosity measurements of lipid and polymer membranes
Hammad A. Faizi, Rumiana Dimova, Petia M. Vlahovska
Viscosity is a key property of cell membranes that controls mobility of embedded proteins and membrane remodeling. Measuring it is challenging because existing approaches involve c…
Fluctuation spectroscopy of giant unilamellar vesicles using confocal and phase contrast microscopy
Hammad A. Faizi, Cody J. Reeves, Vasil N. Georgiev +2
A widely used method to measure the bending rigidity of bilayer membranes is fluctuation spectroscopy, which analyses the thermally-driven membrane undulations of giant unilamellar…
Micron-sized domains in quasi single-component giant vesicles
Roland L. Knorr, Jan Steinkuehler, Rumiana Dimova
Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs), are a convenient tool to study membrane-bound processes using optical microscopy. An increasing number of studies highlights the potential of the…
A New Method for Measuring Edge Tensions and Stability of Lipid Bilayers: Effect of Membrane Composition
Thomas Portet, Rumiana Dimova
We report a new and facile method for measuring edge tensions of lipid membranes. The approach is based on electroporation of giant unilamellar vesicles and analysis of the pore cl…
Electrohydrodynamic model of vesicle deformation in alternating electric fields
Petia Vlahovska, Ruben Serral Gracia, Said Aranda +1
We develop an analytical theory to explain the experimentally-observed morphological transitions of giant vesicles induced by AC electric fields (1). The model treats the inner and…
Traffic by small teams of molecular motors
Melanie J. I. Müller, Janina Beeg, Rumiana Dimova +2
Molecular motors transport various cargos along cytoskeletal filaments, analogous to trucks on roads. In contrast to vehicles, however, molecular motors do not work alone but in sm…