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SUBMITTER: Solmaz ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3827026 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Solmaz Mehmet E ME Sankhagowit Shalene S Biswas Roshni R Mejia Camilo A CA Povinelli Michelle L ML Malmstadt Noah N
RSC advances 20131001 37
Measurements of lipid bilayer bending modulus by various techniques produce widely divergent results. We attempt to resolve some of this ambiguity by measuring bending modulus in a system that can rapidly process large numbers of samples, yielding population statistics. This system is based on optical stretching of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) in a microfluidic dual-beam optical trap (DBOT). The microfluidic DBOT system is used here to measure three populations of GUVs with distinct lipid c ...[more]