Optical stretching as a tool to investigate the mechanical properties of lipid bilayers

Preparation of giant unilamellar vesicles from damp lipid film for better lipid compositional uniformity

(2012) Eda Baykal-Caglar et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Pulling Tethers from Pore-Spanning Bilayers: Towards Simultaneous Determination of Local Bending Modulus and Lateral Tension of Membranes

(2012) Marta Kocun et al.   Small

Optical stretching of giant unilamellar vesicles with an integrated dual-beam optical trap

(2012) Mehmet E. Solmaz et al.   Biomedical Optics Express

Imaging Molecular Transport across Lipid Bilayers

(2011) Su Li et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Advantages of statistical analysis of giant vesicle flickering for bending elasticity measurements

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Effect of the HIV-1 fusion peptide on the mechanical properties and leaflet coupling of lipid bilayers

(2011) P Shchelokovskyy et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Confocal Imaging to Quantify Passive Transport across Biomimetic Lipid Membranes

(2010) Su Li et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Impact of membrane-anchored fluorescent probes on the mechanical properties of lipid bilayers

(2010) Hélène Bouvrais et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Effect of cholesterol on the rigidity of saturated and unsaturated membranes: fluctuation and electrodeformation analysis of giant vesicles

(2010) Rubèn Serral Gracià et al.   Soft Matter

Stiffening Effect of Cholesterol on Disordered Lipid Phases: A Combined Neutron Spin Echo + Dynamic Light Scattering Analysis of the Bending Elasticity of Large Unilamellar Vesicles

(2009) Laura R. Arriaga et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Mechanics of membrane fusion

(2008) Leonid V Chernomordik et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Cholesterol Perturbs Lipid Bilayers Nonuniversally

(2008) Jianjun Pan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS