Manipulation of Lipid Membranes with Thermal Stimuli.

Methods Mol Biol

Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Published: January 2022

We describe a protocol for the assembly and application of infrared (IR-B) laser-based set-ups to be used for localized heating of solid-supported planar and vesicular lipid membrane assemblies.

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