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Membrane mixing and dynamics in hybrid POPC/poly(1,2-butadiene-block-ethylene oxide) (PBd-b-PEO) lipid/block co-polymer giant vesicles

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SOFT MATTER
卷 18, 期 6, 页码 1294-1301

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1sm01591e

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  1. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Centre for Doctoral Training in Soft Matter and Functional Interfaces (SOFI CDT) [EP/L015536/1]

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Lipids and block copolymers can self-assemble into vesicles, and combining them allows for the optimization of vesicle membranes for bionanotechnology applications. Increasing the polymer fraction in the mixture improves membrane mixing but decreases membrane fluidity in hybrid vesicles.
Lipids and block copolymers can individually self-assemble into vesicles, each with their own particular benefits and limitations. Combining polymers with lipids allows for further optimisation of the vesicle membranes for bionanotechnology applications. Here, POPC lipid is mixed with poly(1,2-butadiene-block-ethylene oxide) of two different molecular weights (PBd(22)-PEO14, Mr = 1800 g mol(-1) and PBd(12)-PEO11, Mr = 1150 g mol(-1)) in order to investigate how increasing the polymer fraction affects membrane mixing, hydration and fluidity. Intensity contributions of fluorescently labelled lipid and polymer within mixed GUV membranes confirm membrane homogeneity within the hybrids. General polarisation measurements of Laurdan in GUVs showed little change in membrane hydration as polymer fraction is increased, which suggests good structural compatibility between lipids and polymers that gives rise to well-mixed vesicles. Membrane fluidity in hybrid GUVs was found to decrease non-linearly with increasing polymer fraction. However, the diffusion coefficients for the fluorescent polymer in hybrid membranes did not change significantly with increasing polymer content. While increasing the polymer fraction does reduce the movement of lipids through a polymer-rich matrix, insignificant difference in diffusion coefficients of the polymer suggests that its diffusion is minimally affected by increasing lipid composition in the range studied. These results lay further foundations for the wider development of hybrid vesicles with controlled properties for advanced biotechnologies.

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