Bending Stiffness Depends on Curvature of Ternary Lipid Mixture Tubular Membranes
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Bending stiffness depends on curvature of ternary lipid mixture tubular membranes.
Lipid and protein sorting and trafficking in intracellular pathways maintain cellular function and contribute to organelle homeostasis. Biophysical aspects of membrane shape coupled to sorting have recently received increasing attention. Here we determine membrane tube bending stiffness through measurements of tube radii, and demonstrate that the stiffness of ternary lipid mixtures depends on m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biophysical Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0006-3495
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.07.012