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    Lipid Bicelle Micropatterning Using Chemical Lift-Off Lithography

    Year: 2020

    Journal: ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Volume 12, MAR 18, page 13447–13455

    Authors: Belling, Jason N.; Cheung, Kevin M.; Jackman, Joshua A.; Sut, Tun Naw; Allen, Matthew; Park, Jae Hyeon; Jonas, Steven J.; Cho, Nam-Joon; Weiss, Paul S.

    Keywords: soft lithography; self-assembled monolayer; micropatterning; supported lipid bilayer; bicelle

    Supported lipid membranes are versatile biomimetic coatings for the chemical functionalization of inorganic surfaces. Developing simple and effective fabrication strategies to form supported lipid membranes with micropatterned geometries is a long-standing challenge. Herein, we demonstrate how the combination of chemical lift-off lithography (CLL) and easily prepared lipid bicelle nanostructures can yield micropatterned, supported lipid membranes on gold surfaces with high pattern resolution, conformal character, and biofunctionality. Using CLL, we functionalized gold surfaces with patterned arrays of hydrophilic and hydrophobic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). Time-lapse fluorescence microscopy imaging revealed that lipid bicelles adsorbed preferentially onto the hydrophilic SAM regions, while there was negligible lipid adsorption onto the hydrophobic SAM regions. Functional receptors could be embedded within the lipid bicelles, which facilitated selective detection of receptor-ligand binding interactions in a model streptavidin-biotin system. Quartz crystal microbalance-dissipation measurements further identified that lipid bicelles adsorb irreversibly and remain intact on top of the hydrophilic SAM regions. Taken together, our findings indicate that lipid bicelles are useful lipid nanostructures for reproducibly assembling micropatterned, supported lipid membranes with precise pattern fidelity.
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