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Chemotactic crawling of multivalent vesicles along ligand-density gradients
Hannah Sleath, Bortolo Mognetti, Yuval Elani +1
Living cells are capable of interacting with their environments in a variety of ways, including cell signalling, adhesion, and directed motion. These behaviours are often mediated…
Probing the mechanical properties of DNA nanostructures with metadynamics
W. T. Kaufhold, W. Pfeifer, C. E. Castro +1
Molecular dynamics simulations are often used to provide feedback in the design workflow of DNA nanostructures. However, even with coarse-grained models, convergence of distributio…
Steric interactions between mobile ligands facilitate complete wrapping in passive endocytosis
Lorenzo Di Michele, Pritam Kumar Jana, Bortolo Matteo Mognetti
Receptor-mediated endocytosis is an ubiquitous process through which cells internalize biological or synthetic nanoscale objects, including viruses, unicellular parasites, and nano…
Melting transition in lipid vesicles functionalised by mobile DNA linkers
S. J. Bachmann, J. Kotar, L. Parolini +4
We study phase behaviours of lipid--bilayer vesicles functionalised by ligand--receptor complexes made of synthetic DNA by introducing a modelling framework and a dedicated experim…
The Role of Optical Projection in the Analysis of Membrane Fluctuations
S. Alex Rautu, Davide Orsi, Lorenzo Di Michele +3
We propose a methodology to measure the mechanical properties of membranes from their fluctuations and apply this to optical microscopy measurements of giant unilamellar vesicles o…
Volume and porosity thermal regulation in lipid mesophases by coupling mobile ligands to soft membranes
Lucia Parolini, Bortolo M. Mognetti, Jurij Kotar +3
Short DNA linkers are increasingly being exploited for driving specific self-assembly of Brownian objects. DNA-functionalised colloids can assemble into ordered or amorphous materi…
Multistep kinetic self-assembly of DNA-coated colloids
Lorenzo Di Michele, Francesco Varrato, Jurij Kotar +3
Self-assembly is traditionally described as the process through which an initially disordered system relaxes towards an equilibrium ordered phase only driven by local interactions…
Interactions between colloids induced by a soft cross-linked polymer substrate
Lorenzo Di Michele, Taiki Yanagishima, Anthony R. Brewer +3
Using video-microscopy imaging we demonstrate the existence of a short-ranged equilibrium attraction between heavy silica colloids diffusing on soft surfaces of cross-linked polyme…