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Interaction between complementary liposomes: a process leading to multicompartment systems formation
Author(s) -
Paleos Constantinos M.,
Tsiourvas Dimitris
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of molecular recognition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.401
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1099-1352
pISSN - 0952-3499
DOI - 10.1002/jmr.758
Subject(s) - liposome , chemistry , biophysics , process (computing) , membrane , nanotechnology , computer science , materials science , biochemistry , biology , operating system
Interaction of complementary liposomes induces a series of processes, involving reorganization of their membrane lipids, which lead to the formation of large aggregates. In several cases these aggregates exhibit multicompartment structures and only primitively mimic, in some aspects at least, the multicompartmental features of cells. Similar multicompartment structures were repeatedly obtained following the interaction of a diversity of complementary liposomal pairs. Thus, a working hypothesis is proposed, according to which, molecular recognition of liposomes induces the formation of multicompartment structures. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.