2005/05/07 by Tsutomu Hamada, Yuko Sato, Yuko T. Sato +6
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Materials Science · Neuroscience · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior #Photoreceptor and optogenetics research #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0505179
arxiv created 2005/05/07 · openalex publication_date 2005/05/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A photosensitive amphiphilic molecule can switch the shape of an assembled vesicle as determined by microscopic observation. Photo-isomerization induces a change in membrane fluctuation behavior or a morphological transition between ellipsoid and bud shapes, depending on the asymmetrical degree of the initial shape. The mechanism of this reversible photo-switching in the vesicle morphology is interpreted in terms of a change in the effective cross-sectional area of the photosensitive molecule.