Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Generating biomembrane-like local curvature in polymersomes via dynamic polymer insertion

  • Jiawei Sun,
  • Sjoerd J. Rijpkema,
  • Jiabin Luan,
  • Shaohua Zhang,
  • Daniela A. Wilson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22563-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Investigating biomembrane curvature formation is important for studying intracellular processes, but the instability of liposome models mimicking these membranes restricts exploration of membrane processes. Here, the authors demonstrate control over the curvature formation in polymersome membranes by insertion of PNIPAm as stimuli responsive polymer.