ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2007
Flat and sigmoidally curved contact zones in vesicle-vesicle adhesion.
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- Shape of red blood cells in contact with artificial surfaces.European biophysics journal : EBJ · 2017Article
- A two phase field model for tracking vesicle-vesicle adhesion.Journal of mathematical biology · 2016Article
- The plasma protein fibrinogen stabilizes clusters of red blood cells in microcapillary flows.Scientific reports · 2014Article
- Composite contact of binary lipid membranes.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2013Article
- Adhesive interactions between vesicles in the strong adhesion limit.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2011Article
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Abstract
Using the membrane-bending elasticity theory and a simple effective model of adhesion, we study the morphology of lipid vesicle doublets. In the weak adhesion regime, we find flat-contact axisymmetric doublets, whereas at large adhesion strengths, the vesicle aggregates are nonaxisymmetric and characterized by a sigmoidally curved, S-shaped contact zone with a single invagination and a complementary evagination on each vesicle. The sigmoid-contact doublets agree very well with the experimentally observed shapes of erythrocyte aggregates. Our results show that in identical vesicles with large to moderate surface-to-volume ratio, the sigmoid-contact shape is the only bound morphology. We also discuss the role of sigmoid contacts in the formation of multicellular aggregates such as erythrocyte rouleaux.
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