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On the shift in membrane miscibility transition temperature upon addition of short-chain alcohols
M. Schick
I consider the effect of a small concentration of a molecule, such as a short-chain alcohol, on the miscibility transition temperature of a giant plasma membrane vesicle. For conce…
Line tensions, correlation lengths, and critical exponents in lipid membranes near critical points
Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Pietro Cicuta, Marcus D. Collins +4
Membranes containing a wide variety of ternary mixtures of high chain-melting temperature lipids, low chain-melting temperature lipids, and cholesterol undergo lateral phase separa…
Field Theoretic Study of Bilayer Membrane Fusion III: Membranes with Leaves of Different Composition
Jae Youn Lee, Michael Schick
We extend previous work on homogeneous bilayers to calculate the barriers to fusion of planar bilayers which contain two different amphiphiles, a lamellae-former and a hexagonal fo…
New mechanism of membrane fusion
M. Mueller, K. Katsov, M. Schick
We have carried out Monte Carlo simulation of the fusion of bilayers of single chain amphiphiles which show phase behavior similar to that of biological lipids. The fusion mechanis…
Theory of tunable pH sensitive vesicles of anionic and cationic lipids or anionic and neutral lipids
Xiao-jun Li, M. Schick
The design of vesicles which become unstable at an easily tuned value of pH is of great interest for targeted drug delivery. We present a microscopic theory for two forms of such v…
Theory of Lipid Polymorphism: Application to Phosphatidylethanolamine and Phosphatidylserine
Xiao-jun Li, M. Schick
We introduce a microscopic model of a lipid with a charged headgroup and flexible hydrophobic tails, a neutral solvent, and counter ions. Short-ranged interactions between hydrophi…