Sterols have higher affinity for sphingomyelin than for phosphatidylcholine bilayers even at equal Acyl-chain order

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2633-2641

  Lönnfors, Max ^a   Doux, Jacques P F ^b   Killian, J Antoinette ^b   Nyholm, Thomas K M ^a   Slotte, J Peter ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 79960288337     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.03.066     Document Type: Article

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