Roopa, T and Shivashankar, G. V. (2003) Nanomechanics of membrane tubulation and DNA assembly. Applied Physics Letters, 82 . p. 1631.
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Abstract
We report an interesting regime of tubule formation in multilamellar membrane vesicles. An optically trapped bead is used to apply a localized subpicoNewton force on a cationic vesicle to form a membrane tubule. The force extension curves reveal a saturation phase, with the tubule length extending up to tens of microns, beyond a threshold force 0.6+/-0.2 pN. We then use the tubule as a sensor for monitoring the dynamics of charge induced DNA integration on cationic membrane vesicles. Our results may also have applications in the development of nanowires and nanofluidic devices.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Biomedical Science > Nanobiotechnology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences |
| ID Code: | 4079 |
| Deposited By: | JNCASR |
| Deposited On: | 02 Feb 2009 04:59 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Apr 2009 09:14 |
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