2015年7月27日 Dr. Jean Wolff (終了)

日時: 2015年7月27日(月)11:00〜12:30
場所: 首都大学東京 8号館304号室 
講師: Dr. Jean Wolff(Institut Charles Sadron)
題目: Budding of domains in mixed bilayer membranes

要旨: We propose a model that accounts for budding behavior of domains in lipid bilayers, where each of the bilayer leaflets has a coupling between its local curvature and local lipid composition. The compositional asymmetry between the two monolayers leads to an overall spontaneous curvature. The membrane free energy contains three contributions: bending energy, line tension, and a Landau free-energy for a lateral phase separation. Within a mean-field treatment, we obtain various phase diagrams which contain fully-budded, dimpled and flat states. In particular, for some range of membrane parameters, the phase diagrams exhibit a tricritical behavior as well as three-phase coexistence region. The global phase diagrams can be divided into three types and are analyzed in terms of the curvature-composition coupling parameter and domain size.