Controllable engineering of asymmetric phosphatidylserine-containing lipid vesicles using calcium cations

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Nov 28;53(95):12762-12765. doi: 10.1039/c7cc05114j.

Abstract

A novel method to produce controllable asymmetric lipid vesicles using Ca2+ is reported. The enrichment of negatively charged phosphatidylserine (PS) molecules in the inner leaflet is found not due to charge-charge attraction, but rather a modulation effect on the occupying size of the headgroups of PS molecules.