… composed of artificial vesicles (liposomes) and artificial membranes (planar lipid bilayers),
we observed that fusion is significantly affected by the lipid phase of the planar membrane. To …

… temperature of DOPE. This effect is eliminated by the addition of membrane-stiffening cholesterol,
which … Moreover, osmotic swelling of the vesicles contacting the planar membrane puts …

… important role in fusion of vesicles to cell membranes, an essential … vesicles and planar
lipid membranes, we observed that fusion is significantly affected by the lipid phase of the planar …

… of cholesterol in either the vesicle or planar membrane accelerates membrane fusion and
… is the mean square fluctuation, k B is the Boltzmann constant and T is the temperature. The …

… , for vesicles containing cholesterol, raising the temperature to … This work thus established
a technique that expanded the … lipid content necessary to form a planar SLB. This could give …

… in the cis compartment are enhanced orders of magnitude by … Planar membranes were
formed at room temperature (22-24… paper differs from biological vesicle-membrane fusion, as it …

… planar membrane conductance during the fusion of vesicles … One example is cholesterol
hemisuccinate that inhibits fusion … by influenza HA at low temperature? Presumably further …

… The increased viscosity of cholesterol-containing membranes slows down the lateral and …
in sphingolipids and cholesterol and that are isolated at low temperature after detergent …

… the presence of cholesterol on the fusion reaction and the … the endothermic peak toward
lower temperatures. In this case… to lateral diffusion on the plane of the membranes would be very …

… working temperature is above the transition temperature of … Effects of low concentration of
cholesterol (<10 mol%) have … the monolayer such that the monolayer plane was no longer well …