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Article Dans Une Revue Soft Matter Année : 2016

Spreading of porous vesicles subjected to osmotic shocks: the role of aquaporins

Maxime Deforet
Patricia Bassereau
Françoise Brochard-Wyart
Stéphanie Mangenot
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Aquaporin 0 (AQP0) is a transmembrane protein specific to the eye lens, involved as a water carrier across the lipid membranes. During eye lens maturation, AQP0s are truncated by proteolytic cleavage. We investigate in this work the capability of truncated AQP0 to conduct water across membranes. We developed a method to accurately determine water permeability across lipid membranes and across proteins from the deflation under osmotic pressure of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) deposited on an adhesive substrate. Using reflection interference contrast microscopy (RICM), we measure the spreading area of GUVs during deswelling. We interpret these results using a model based on hydrodynamic, binder diffusion towards the contact zone, and Helfrich's law for the membrane tension, which allows us to relate the spread area to the vesicle internal volume. We first study the specific adhesion of vesicles coated with biotin spreading on a streptavidin substrate. We then determine the permeability of a single functional AQP0 and demonstrate that truncated AQP0 is no more a water channel.
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hal-01251442 , version 1 (06-01-2016)

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Alice Berthaud, François Quemeneur, Maxime Deforet, Patricia Bassereau, Françoise Brochard-Wyart, et al.. Spreading of porous vesicles subjected to osmotic shocks: the role of aquaporins. Soft Matter, 2016, 12 (5), pp.1601-1609. ⟨10.1039/C5SM01654A⟩. ⟨hal-01251442⟩
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