Lipid Exchange Promotes Fusion of Model Protocells (Small Methods 12/2023)
Source abstract
Abstract
Vesicle Fusion Fatty acid vesicles are used as model protocells. In article number 2300126, Collin Nisler, Anna Wang, and co-workers show that instead of traditional ways to fuse the vesicles, disturbing the lipid packing is more likely to destabilize the hemifused state. Consequently, vesicles of different compositions have a higher likelihood of fusion than vesicles of like-compositions.
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Research context
OpenAlex topics: Metabolism and Genetic Disorders · Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
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Affiliations
School of Chemistry, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology UNSW RNA Institute UNSW Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
Laboratory of Biology and Information Science, School of Life Sciences East China Normal University Shanghai 200062 P. R. China
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Department of Chemistry The University of Chicago Chicago IL 60637 USA
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