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ArticleNature chemistry2024

Kinetic control of shape deformations and membrane phase separation inside giant vesicles.

Wan-Chih Su, James C S Ho, Douglas L Gettel, Andrew T Rowland, Christine D Keating, Atul N Parikh

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29 citing papers in PubMed.

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  16. Engineering Liquid Hierarchical Materials with DNA-Programmed Spherical Nucleic Acids.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Wan-Chih SuChemistry Graduate Program, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1766-9037
James C S HoSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering and Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-6131-1297
Douglas L GettelChemical Engineering Graduate Program, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6311-1045
Andrew T RowlandDepartment of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Christine D KeatingDepartment of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. cmd8@psu.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6039-1961
Atul N ParikhChemistry Graduate Program, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. anparikh@ucdavis.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5927-4968

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) DMR-1810540U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-SC0008633
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A variety of cellular processes use liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) to create functional levels of organization, but the kinetic pathways by which it proceeds remain incompletely understood. Here in real time, we monitor the dynamics of LLPS of mixtures of segregatively phase-separating polymers inside all-synthetic, giant unilamellar vesicles. After dynamically triggering phase separation, we find that the ensuing relaxation-en route to the new equilibrium-is non-trivially modulated by a dynamic interplay between the coarsening of the evolving droplet phase and the interactive membrane boundary. The membrane boundary is preferentially wetted by one of the incipient phases, dynamically arresting the progression of coarsening and deforming the membrane. When the vesicles are composed of phase-separating mixtures of common lipids, LLPS within the vesicular interior becomes coupled to the membrane's compositional degrees of freedom, producing microphase-separated membrane textures. This coupling of bulk and surface phase-separation processes suggests a physical principle by which LLPS inside living cells might be dynamically regulated and communicated to the cellular boundaries.

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Phase SeparationUnilamellar LiposomesUnilamellar Liposomes

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