Diffusion of liquid domains in lipid bilayer membranes

Details Diffusion of liquid domains in lipid bilayer membranes Diffusion of liquid domains in lipid bilayer membranes

2006-11-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611492v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. on 17th April 2006

Scientific paper

We report diffusion coeffcients of micron-scale liquid domains in giant unilamellar vesicles of phospholipids and cholesterol. The trajectory of each domain is tracked, and the mean square displacement grows linearly in time as expected for Brownian motion. We study domain dffusion as a function of composition and temperature, and measure how diffusion depends on domain size. We find mechanisms of domain diffusion which are consistent with membrane-dominated drag in viscous Lo phases [P.G. Saffman and M. Delbruck, PNAS 72, 3111 (1975)], and bulk-dominated drag for less viscous L$_\alpha$ phases [B.D.Hughes et al., J. Fluid Mech. 110, 349 (1981)]. Where applicable, we obtain the membrane viscosity and report activation energies of diffusion.

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