Molecular recognition induced aggregation and fusion between vesicles containing lipids bearing complementary hydrogen bonding head-groups

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Valérie Marchi-Artzner, Ludovic Jullien, Thaddée Gulik-Krzywicki and Jean-Marie Lehn


Abstract

Equimolar mixtures of large unilamellar vesicles, obtained from mixtures of egg lecithin and lipids containing complementary hydrogen bonding head-groups (barbituric acid and triaminopyrimidine), aggregate and fuse generating much larger vesicles.


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