Free Brownian motion of individual lipid molecules in biomembranes

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2638-2642

  Sonnleitner, A ^a   Schutz G J ^a   Schmidt, Thomas ^a,b  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FLUORESCENCE; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE; MOTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0345466367     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77097-9     Document Type: Article

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