The mechanism of vesicle formation

Vesicles are very important in many different areas of science and technology. In basic research they serve as models for cell membranes and their fusion, transport studies and investigations of membrane proteins that can be reconstituted in vesicles (i.e. "proteoliposomes"). They also serve as delivery vehicles for drugs, genetic material, enzymes and other (macro)molecules into living cells and through other hydrophobic barriers.