Saturation with cholesterol increases vertical order and smoothes the surface of the phosphatidylcholine bilayer: A molecular simulation study

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1818, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 520-529

  Plesnar, Elzbieta ^a   Subczynski, Witold K ^b   Pasenkiewicz Gierula, Marta ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain order; Eye lens; Fiber cell membrane; Isomerization; Lens transparency

Indexed keywords

2 OLEOYL 1 PALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; CHOLESTEROL; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ISOMERIZATION; LENS EPITHELIUM; LIPID COMPOSITION; MEMBRANE SURFACE; MEMBRANE SURFACE SMOOTHING; MEMBRANE THICKNESS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHOLESTEROL; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES;

EID: 84855733493     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: 18792642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.10.023     Document Type: Article

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