Pearling Instabilities of Membrane Tubes with Anchored Polymers

Details Pearling Instabilities of Membrane Tubes with Anchored Polymers Pearling Instabilities of Membrane Tubes with Anchored Polymers

2000-04-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0004019v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages with 3 postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1138

We have studied the pearling instability induced on hollow tubular lipid vesicles by hydrophilic polymers with hydrophobic side groups along the backbone. The results show that the polymer concentration is coupled to local membrane curvature. The relaxation of a pearled tube is characterized by two different well-separated time scales, indicating two physical mechanisms. We present a model, which explains the observed phenomena and predicts polymer segregation according to local membrane curvature at late stages.

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