Figure 1.

Effect of the presence of seed vesicles on the turbidity increase caused by dilution of oleate micelles toward neutrality. A micellar oleate solution of pH 10.5 was added at the time point indicated by the arrow to a bicine buffer at pH 8.5 in the absence (A) or presence of 200 nm DOPC vesicles (B) or 200 nm oleate vesicles (C). The amount of oleate added resulted in an overall fourfold increase in the number of chains already present in B and C.