Cholesterol induces specific spatial and orientational order in cholesterol/phospholipid membranes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Martinez Seara, Hector ^a   Róg, Tomasz ^b   Karttunen, Mikko ^c   Vattulainen, Ilpo ^b,d,e   Reigada, Ramon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; METHYL GROUP; PHOSPHOLIPID; STEROL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIPID MEMBRANE; LIPID RAFT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANE; SIMULATION;

CHOLESTEROL; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

EID: 77956220615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011162     Document Type: Article

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