Abstract
Thermally induced shape fluctuations of giant quasi-spherical lipid vesicles are used to study the influence of the cholesterol, incorporated in the lipid membranes, on the bending elasticity modulus kc of the lipid membrane. The influence of cholesterol is investigated throughout a considerably wide interval of concentrations. The values of the bending elastic modulus for 10, 20, 30 and 50 mol% of cholesterol in the SOPC membrane are obtained as a mean weighted value of 6–11 vesicles for each system. The dependence of the bending elasticity modulus on the concentration of cholesterol in the lipid membrane is obtained. At low concentration of cholesterol in the SOPC membrane (10 mol %) a decrease of the bending elasticity modulus is observed, compared to pure SOPC membrane. At high cholesterol content (50 mol% and above) a twofold increase of the bending modulus is obtained. The data for kc for mixed SOPC – cholesterol membrane is compared to the results obtained by different methods on different lipid matrices.
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