Abstract
Lipid vesicles are widely used as models to investigate the interactions of proteins, peptides, and small molecules with lipid bilayers. We present a sonication procedure for the preparation of well-defined and ready-to-use small unilamellar vesicles composed of phospholipids with the aid of a beaker resonator. This indirect but efficient sonication method does not require subsequent centrifugation or other purification steps, which distinguishes it from established sonication procedures. Vesicles produced by this method reveal a unimodal size distribution and are unilamellar, as demonstrated by dynamic light scattering and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, respectively.
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