Membrane Dynamics of a Myelin-like Giant Multilamellar Vesicle Applicable to a Self-Reproducing System

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• 作者：Katsuto Takakura and Tadashi Sugawara
• 刊名：Langmuir
• 出版年：2004
• 出版时间：May 11, 2004
• 年：2004
• 卷：20
• 期：10
• 页码：3832 - 3834
• 全文大小：72K
• 年卷期：v.20,no.10(May 11, 2004)
• ISSN：1520-5827

文摘

A real time observation of a myelin-like giant multilamellar vesicle (mGMV) revealed that it dividedinto relatively small mGMVs when an aqueous solution of an electrolyte was added. Furthermore, themGMV showed a division process accompanied by the growth of the dividing mGMVs when a bolaamphiphilewhich was composed of an electrolyte unit and a vesicular amphiphile unit was added. This vesicularsystem can be regarded as a self-reproduction of mGMV, where the added amphiphile acts as a supplierof both the vesicular amphiphile and the division initiator.