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Kinetic relaxation of giant vesicles validates diffusional softening in a binary lipid mixture

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Aleksanyan,  Mina       
Rumiana Dimova, Nachhaltige und Bio-inspirierte Materialien, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Max Planck Society;

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Dimova,  Rumiana       
Rumiana Dimova, Nachhaltige und Bio-inspirierte Materialien, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Max Planck Society;

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Sapp, K., Aleksanyan, M., Kerr, K., Dimova, R., & Sodt, A. (2023). Kinetic relaxation of giant vesicles validates diffusional softening in a binary lipid mixture. Physical Review E, 107(5): 054403. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.107.054403.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-4482-3
Abstract
The stiffness of biological membranes determines the work required by cellular machinery to form and dismantle vesicles and other lipidic shapes. Model membrane stiffness can be determined from the equilibrium distribution of giant unilamellar vesicle surface undulations observable by phase contrast microscopy. With two or more components, lateral fluctuations of composition will couple to surface undulations depending on the curvature sensitivity of the constituent lipids. The result is a broader distribution of undulations whose complete relaxation is partially determined by lipid diffusion. In this work, kinetic analysis of the undulations of giant unilamellar vesicles made of phosphatidylcholine-phosphatidylethanolamine mixtures validates the molecular mechanism by which the membrane is made 25% softer than a single-component one. The mechanism is relevant to biological membranes, which have diverse and curvature-sensitive lipids.