Bi-Phasic Vesicles: instability induced by adsorption of proteins

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2003-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0312028v2

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Subcellular Processes

19 avr. 2004

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physa.2003.12.058

The recent discovery of a lateral organization in cell membranes due to small structures called 'rafts' has motivated a lot of biological and physico-chemical studies. A new experiment on a model system has shown a spectacular budding process with the expulsion of one or two rafts when one introduces proteins on the membrane. In this paper, we give a physical interpretation of the budding of the raft phase. An approach based on the energy of the system including the presence of proteins is used to derive a shape equation and to study possible instabilities. This model shows two different situations which are strongly dependent on the nature of the proteins: a regime of easy budding when the proteins are strongly coupled to the membrane and a regime of difficult budding.

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