Construction of Highly Integrated π-Space on Artificial Cell Membranes and Its Nano-device Function
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2008 -2012
Author : KIKUCHI Jun-ichi; YASUHARA Kazuma; TAHARA Keishiro
In this study, we designed the artificial cell membranes as functional nano-devices. The self-assembled artificial cell membranes were constructed with a combination of lipid molecules, such as phospholipids, peptide lipids and cerasome-forming lipids, and π-conjugated functional molecules. The resulting artificial cell membranes provided the highly elaborated π-spaces, which acted as nano-devices performing membrane trafficking and signal transduction.