The interfacial structure of phospholipid bilayers: Differential scanning calorimetry and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic studies of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphorylcholine and its dialkyl and acyl-alkyl analogs

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2736-2746

  Lewis, Ruthven N A H ^a   Pohle, Walter ^b   McElhaney, Ronald N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE;

ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION;

1,2-DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; ALKYLATION; BIOPHYSICS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; LIPID BILAYERS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0029967328     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79843-0     Document Type: Article

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