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Rapid Encapsulation of Reconstituted Cytoskeleton Inside Giant Unilamellar Vesicles
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1Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,Harvard University, 3Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics,Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 4Department of Biomedical Engineering,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 5Department of Biophysics,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 6Cellular and Molecular Biology Program,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Chapters
- 00:05Introduction
- 00:48Preparation of Oil-Lipid-Mixture
- 02:12Vesicle Generation
- 05:42Imaging and 3D image Reconstruction
- 06:53Results: Encapsulation of Actin Bundle Structures
- 07:08Conclusion
This article introduces a simple method for expeditious production of giant unilamellar vesicles with encapsulated cytoskeletal proteins. The method proves to be useful for bottom-up reconstitution of cytoskeletal structures in confinement and cytoskeleton-membrane interactions.
