Manipulation of Lipid Membranes with Thermal Stimuli

Karolina Spustova; Lin Xue; Ruslan Ryskulov; Aldo Jesorka; Irep Gözen

doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-1843-1_17

Manipulation of Lipid Membranes with Thermal Stimuli

Methods Mol Biol. 2022:2402:209-225. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1843-1_17.

Authors

Karolina Spustova¹, Lin Xue¹, Ruslan Ryskulov², Aldo Jesorka³, Irep Gözen^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
² Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden.
³ Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. aldo@chalmers.se.
⁴ Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. irep@uio.no.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. irep@uio.no.

PMID: 34854047
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1843-1_17

Abstract

We describe a protocol for the assembly and application of infrared (IR-B) laser-based set-ups to be used for localized heating of solid-supported planar and vesicular lipid membrane assemblies.

Keywords: Biomembranes; Giant unilamellar vesicle; IR-B laser; Laser-heating; Microthermocouple; Solid-supported lipid bilayers; Thermal gradient.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Lipid Bilayers
Lipids / chemistry*
Unilamellar Liposomes

Substances

Lipid Bilayers
Lipids
Unilamellar Liposomes