The effect of increasing membrane curvature on the phase transition and mixing behavior of a dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylcholine/ distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylcholine lipid mixture as studied by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1373-1379

  Brumm, Thomas ^a   Jørgensen, Kent ^b   Mouritsen, Ole G ^b   Bayerl, Thomas M ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; DISTEAROYLPHOSPHATIDIC ACID;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOPHYSICS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; LIPID BILAYERS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PRESSURE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030053808     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79695-9     Document Type: Article

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