Abstract
The relaxation of a lecithin suspension after sonication is studied by electron microscopy. It is shown that vesicles are formed in a two‐stage process: Fragmentation into open sheets of bilayer under the action of sound and subsequent spontaneous closure of the planar disks into closed shells. A prerequisite of the discovery is a slowing down of the relaxation process by the addition of a moderate amount of cholate as an ‘edge‐actant’.
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Created | 23 years, 1 month ago (July 25, 2002, 3:58 a.m.) |
Deposited | 1 year, 11 months ago (Sept. 16, 2023, 12:38 a.m.) |
Indexed | 4 weeks ago (Aug. 2, 2025, 1:07 a.m.) |
Issued | 40 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 1, 1985) |
Published | 40 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 1, 1985) |
Published Online | 23 years, 9 months ago (Nov. 5, 2001) |
Published Print | 40 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 1, 1985) |
@article{Fromherz_1985, title={Lipid vesicle formation: the transition from open disks to closed shells}, volume={179}, ISSN={1873-3468}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(85)80211-8}, DOI={10.1016/0014-5793(85)80211-8}, number={1}, journal={FEBS Letters}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Fromherz, Peter and Ruppel, Diether}, year={1985}, month=jan, pages={155–159} }