Coexisting planar and curved model membranes: binary diffracting scaffolds.
Biological membranes constitute a key self-assembled structure in biology with a wide variety of roles including defining the limits of the cells and organelles but also hosting a range of biochemical reactions and biological processes. The structure of the biological membrane that we know well today is that of planar membranes, mainly due to methodological limitations. We have developed a new platform to study the structure of membranes under high curvature, importantly also in coexistence with membranes of low curvature. This implies that we can now study the behaviour of lipid mixtures with low and high intrinsic curvature and simultaneously characterise the structure and composition of the planar and curved membranes using selective lipid deuteration and neutron reflection. In this experiment we will study the model biological membrane structure on which there is not only coexistence of flat and curved regions but also to include two types of high curvature (NP with differing diameters). For this we will use specular and off-specular neutron reflection.
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CARDENAS; GUTFREUND Philipp; MEHLER Filip; Bert Nickel; Nicoḷ Paracini; VOROBIEV Alexei and WOLFF Maximilian. (2023). Coexisting planar and curved model membranes: binary diffracting scaffolds.. Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) doi:10.5291/ILL-DATA.8-02-996
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