title: Integrated Microfluidic System for Size-Based Selection and Trapping of Giant Vesicles.
abstract: Vesicles composed of phospholipids (liposomes) have attracted interest as artificial cell models and have been widely studied to explore lipid-lipid and lipid-protein interactions. However, the size dispersity of liposomes prepared by conventional methods was a major problem that inhibited their use in high-throughput analyses based on monodisperse liposomes. In this study, we developed an integrative microfluidic device that enables both the size-based selection and trapping of liposomes. This device consists of hydrodynamic selection and trapping channels in series, which made it possible to successfully produce an array of more than 60 monodisperse liposomes from a polydisperse liposome suspension with a narrow size distribution (the coefficient of variation was less than 12%). We successfully observed a size-dependent response of the liposomes to sequential osmotic stimuli, which had not clarified so far, by using this device. Our device will be a powerful tool to facilitate the statistical analysis of liposome dynamics.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo , 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kazayama
authors.affiliation: Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo , 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan.
authors.forename: Tetsuhiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Teshima
authors.affiliation: Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo , 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan.|Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology , 3-2-1 Sakado, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa 213-0012, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshihisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Osaki
authors.affiliation: Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo , 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan.
authors.forename: Shoji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo , 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.
authors.forename: Taro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Toyota
mesh_terms: D057446:Hydrodynamics; D008081:Liposomes / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation; D010316:Particle Size; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D008081:Liposomes