What determines the thickness of a biological membrane

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-125

  Kučerka, Norbert ^a,b   Nieh, Mu Ping ^a   Pencer, Jeremy ^c   Sachs, Jonathan N ^d   Katsaras, John ^a,e,f  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^f BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilayer thickness; Cholesterol; Contrast variation; Neutron diffraction; Phospholipid bilayer

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIERUCOYL GLYSEROPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; CHOLESTEROL; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WATER SUPPLY;

ALGORITHMS; CHOLESTEROL; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; LINEAR MODELS; LIPID BILAYERS; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PROBABILITY; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; WATER;

EID: 67650954459     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4149/gpb_2009_02_117     Document Type: Article

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