Fig. 6: Design of microfluidic chips for the exposure of GUVs to different solution conditions.
From: Controlled division of cell-sized vesicles by low densities of membrane-bound proteins
Cartoon and image of GUVs (red) located in microfluidic dead-end channels that acted as vesicle traps (bottom) and solution conditions outside the GUVs were set by computer-controlled syringe pumps (top). The solutes reached the GUVs by diffusion into the traps (Supplementary Movie 4). In this way, the GUVs were screened from mechanical perturbations arising from hydrodynamic flows in the main channel. Scale bar for the lower right image: 50 μm.
