Freeze Fracture Electron Microscopy of Lyotropic Lipid Systems: Quantitative Analysis of the Inverse Micellar Cubic Phase of Space Group Fd3m (Q227)

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 88-103

  Delacroix, Hervé ^a   Gulik Krzywicki, Tadeusz ^a   Seddon, John M ^b  

^a CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Freeze fracture electron microscopy; Inverse micellar cubic phases; Lipids; Lyotropic liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

DIOLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROL DERIVATIVE; GLYCEROL DIOLEATE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZE FRACTURE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MICELLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0029924186     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0236     Document Type: Article

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