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Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Pulling Membrane Nanotubes from Giant Unilamellar Vesicles

Coline Prévost, Feng-Ching Tsai, Patricia Bassereau, Mijo Simunovic

Many proteins in the cell sense and induce membrane curvature. We describe a method to pull membrane nanotubes from lipid vesicles to study the interaction of proteins or any curvature-active molecule with curved membranes in vitro.

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