… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… was able to enhance tubulovesicle−tubulovesicle fusion in vitro; thus… at very low temperatures
where the very low rates created … to an electric field is greatly stabilized by their cholesterol …

… Whether increased vesicle cholesterol affects vesicle fusion … min at room temperature (RT).
To immunolabel PRL secretory … positive vesicles per cell plane (C) and the cumulative vesicle …

… Also used are planar bilayers, which are simply a flat sheet of … isotropic phases were noted
in a temperature-dependent study with vesicles containing PE, PC, and cholesterol in a 3 : I : …

… nm pore size membrane ∼10 times (at a temperature of ∼55 … vesicle fusion at 45 C, R̂
LB increased from 1.2 to 22 kΩ cm 2 for lipids with no cholesterol and with 50 mol % cholesterol, …