Issue 5, 2011
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Soft Matter

A membrane fusion assay based on pore-spanning lipid bilayers†

Ines Höfera  and  Claudia Steinem*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Tammannstr. 2, Göttingen, Germany
E-mail: csteine@gwdg.de
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Abstract

Pore-spanning planar membranes on highly ordered porous silicon substrates were shown to be well suited to monitor the calcium ion mediated fusion of large unilamellar vesicles by means of confocal laser scanning fluorescence microscopy and scanning ion conductance microscopy in real-time.

Graphical abstract: A membrane fusion assay based on pore-spanning lipid bilayers

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0SM01429J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
06 Dec 2010
Accepted
04 Jan 2011
First published
24 Jan 2011

Soft Matter, 2011,7, 1644-1647

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I. Höfer and C. Steinem, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 1644 DOI: 10.1039/C0SM01429J

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