Domain nucleation rates and interfacial line tensions in supported bilayers of ternary mixtures containing galactosylceramide

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2691-2697

  Blanchette, Craig D ^a,b   Lin, Wan Chen ^a   Orme, Christine A ^b   Ratto, Timothy V ^b   Longo, Marjorie L ^c  

^a Biophysics Graduate Group   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSYLCERAMIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; METHODOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE TENSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GALACTOSYLCERAMIDES; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 41649112141     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.122572     Document Type: Article

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