Lipid Vesicle-Coated Complex Coacervates.

ABSTRACT: Compartmentalization by complex coacervation is important across a range of different fields including subcellular and prebiotic organization, biomedicine, food science, and personal care products. Often, lipid self-assemblies such as vesicles are also present intracellularly or in commercial formulations. A systematic understanding of how phospholipid vesicles interact with different complex coacervates could provide insight and improve control over these systems. In this manuscript, anionic phospholipid vesicles were added to a series of different complex coacervate samples in which coacervates were formed by mixing one of five polycations with one of three (poly)anions that varied in chemical structure and length. Vesicles were found to assemble at the coacervate/continuous phase interf

SUBMITTER: Pir Cakmak F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7276091 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature