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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry letters2017

The Effects of Shear Force Transmission Across Vesicle Membranes.

Bernhard Sebastian, Tobias Favero, Petra S Dittrich

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Bernhard SebastianDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich , Mattenstrasse 26, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
Tobias FaveroDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich , Mattenstrasse 26, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
Petra S DittrichDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich , Mattenstrasse 26, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5359-8403

Funding

European Research Council 681587
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a comprehensive study on mechanotransmission of shear forces across lipid bilayer membranes of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). GUVs containing fluorescent tracer particles were immobilized on a microfluidic platform and exposed to shear flows. A method was developed for the visualization of three-dimensional flows at high precision by defocusing microscopy. We quantify the symmetry of external flow around the GUV and show its effects on vortex flows and luminal dynamics. With increasing asymmetry, luminal vortices merged while liquid exchange in between them increased. The effect of membrane composition was studied through addition of cholesterol. Mechanotransmission efficacy, quantified by the ratio of luminal flow to external flow, ranged from ε = 0.094 (0 mol % cholesterol) to ε = 0.043 (16 mol % cholesterol). Our findings give new cues to the mechanisms underlying the sensing of strength and spatial distribution of shear forces by cells and the impact of membrane composition.

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Lipid BilayersMicroscopy, FluorescenceModels, BiologicalUnilamellar LiposomesCholesterolLiposomesMembranesShear StrengthCholesterolLipid BilayersLiposomesUnilamellar Liposomes

Identifiers

PMID29190425
PMCPMC6426246

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