Selection of Lipid Mixes

What's this ?

You'll find in this page a few lipid mix that are of general (and personal) interest in the field of membrane biology and biophysics. For each mix, you can download the corresponding JSON file and open it in this page. Or you can directly click on the open mix button.

Phase transition with Sphingomyelin - DOPC - Cholesterol

Mix making phase transition if prepared above the phase transition (55°C is ok). The rhodamine lipid stains the liquid disordered phase.

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Escrt-III patch growth

Lipid membrane made to create supported membranes on which Escrt-III proteins from yeast are able to polymerize. Contains charged lipids and a red dye for fluorescence microscopy.
Work by the Aurélien Roux lab .

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Your mix ?

If you want to contribute, I would be more than happy. Send me a mix file, a reference to a paper if necessary, ideally a nice image, and I'll add it and acknowledge you and whoever you think is appropriate.
To do that, please send a tweet to @nKiaru, open a GitHub issue or mail me (@ nicolas {dot} chiaruttini {at} gmail {dot} com).
Source image : By Varaine (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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What's next ?

Here are some ideas about mixes I'd like to add to make this a useful resource:

Different ways of making phase transitions - with fluorescence staining on disordered or ordered phase.
Funny shaped vesicles
Stiff / flexible vesicles
Mixes that mimic cell compartements (ER / Golgi / Plasma membrane)

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