Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1944829 | Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes | 2010 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Giant Unilamellar Vesicles (GUVs) provide a key model membrane system to study lipid–lipid and lipid–protein interactions, which are relevant to vital cellular processes, by (single-molecule) optical microscopy. Here, we review the work on reconstitution techniques for membrane proteins and other preparation methods for developing GUVs towards most suitable close-to-native membrane systems. Next, we present a few applications of protein-containing GUVs to study domain assembly and protein partitioning into raft-like domains.
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Authors
Nicoletta Kahya,