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Cover Image, Volume 108, Issue 2
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
peptide science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.556
H-Index - 125
eISSN - 1097-0282
pISSN - 0006-3525
DOI - 10.1002/bip.22966
Subject(s) - vesicle , homogeneous , cover (algebra) , amphiphile , nanotechnology , fission , chemistry , nanotube , membrane , volume (thermodynamics) , carbon nanotube , physics , materials science , engineering , nuclear physics , statistical physics , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , neutron , thermodynamics , organic chemistry , copolymer , polymer
Kimura and co‐workers prepare vesicles with a homogeneous size distribution using both membrane fusion and membrane fission of various combinations of three amphiphilic polypeptide assemblies. Controlled self‐assembly leads to nanotubes and nanosheets, with the nanosheets fusing to the end of the nanotubes. Subsequent fission gives a closed 60 nm vesicle leaving behind a shortened nanotube. The size of the vesicles is related to the diameter of the nanotube, therefore by using nanotubes as a structural template it is possible to regulate the size of vesicles upon the membrane fission process. (doi: 10.1002/bip.22903 )