title: Adhesive Nanoparticles as Local Probes of Membrane Curvature.
abstract: Biological and biomimetic membranes display complex shapes with nonuniform curvature. Because the interaction of adhesive nanoparticles with such membranes depends on the local membrane curvature, different segments of the same membrane can differ in their engulfment behavior. For a single vesicle in contact with many nanoparticles, we predict ten distinct engulfment patterns as well as morphological transitions between these patterns, which are directly accessible to experiment.
authors.affiliation: Theory and Bio-Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces , 14424 Potsdam, Germany.
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Agudo-Canalejo
authors.affiliation: Theory and Bio-Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces , 14424 Potsdam, Germany.
authors.forename: Reinhard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lipowsky
mesh_terms: D002462:Cell Membrane; D015335:Molecular Probes; D053758:Nanoparticles
chemical_list: D015335:Molecular Probes
keywords: bilayer asymmetry; contact mean curvature; local stability analysis; membranes and vesicles; nanoparticle engulfment; nanoparticle−membrane adhesion; spontaneous curvature