Lights on: Dye dequenching reveals polymersome fusion with polymer, lipid and stealth lipid vesicles

• Published in: Polymer (Guilford) Vol. 83; pp. 239 - 245
• Main Authors: Henderson, Ian M., Collins, Aaron M., Quintana, Hope A., Montaño, Gabriel A., Martinez, Julio A., Paxton, Walter F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 28.01.2016
• Subjects: Circulatory system; Conjugation; Derivatives; Dye; Dyes; Fusion; Iodides; Lipid; Lipids; Liposome; Liposomes; Polymer; Polymersome; Quenching; Vesicles; Dye; Polymersome; Liposome; Polymer; Fusion; Lipid; Quenching

Herein we develop a quantitative dye dequenching technique for the measurement of polymersome fusion, using it to characterize the salt mediated, mechanically-induced fusion of polymersomes with polymer, lipid, and so-called stealth lipid vesicles. While dye dequenching has been used to quantitative...