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ArticleACS nano2020

pH-Controlled Coacervate-Membrane Interactions within Liposomes.

Mart G F Last, Siddharth Deshpande, Cees Dekker

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Article in ACS nano, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Mart G F LastDepartment of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3739-8863
Siddharth DeshpandeDepartment of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-7137-8962
Cees DekkerDepartment of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-6273-071X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Membraneless organelles formed by liquid-liquid phase separation are dynamic structures that are employed by cells to spatiotemporally regulate their interior. Indeed, complex coacervation-based phase separation is involved in a multitude of biological tasks ranging from photosynthesis to cell division to chromatin organization, and more. Here, we use an on-chip microfluidic method to control and study the formation of membraneless organelles within liposomes, using pH as the main control parameter. We show that a transmembrane proton flux that is created by a stepwise change in the external pH can readily bring about the coacervation of encapsulated components in a controlled manner. We employ this strategy to induce and study electrostatic as well as hydrophobic interactions between the coacervate and the lipid membrane. Electrostatic interactions using charged lipids efficiently recruit coacervates to the membrane and restrict their movement along the inner leaflet. Hydrophobic interactions

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Artificial CellsLiposomesHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsMicrofluidicsLiposomescoacervatesliposomesliquid−liquid phase separationmembranesmicrofluidics

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PMID32239914
PMCPMC7199211

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