Membrane properties of cholesterol analogs with an unbranched aliphatic side chain

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

Volumn 184, Issue , 2014, Pages e1-e6

  Meyer, Thomas ^a   Baek, Dong Jae ^c   Bittman, Robert ^c   Haralampiev, Ivan ^b   Müller, Peter ^b   Herrmann, Andreas ^b   Huster, Daniel ^a,d   Scheidt, Holger A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Diffusion; Domain formation; Lipid membrane; Order parameter; Permeability

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUND; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL DERIVATIVE; DITHIONITE; METHYL GROUP; PHOSPHOLIPID; 1-PALMITOYL-2-OLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; ALKANE; ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; LIPOSOME; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEUTERON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DIFFUSION; ION PERMEABILITY; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOLECULE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHEMISTRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERMEABILITY;

ALKANES; ANDROSTENOLS; CHOLESTEROL; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERMEABILITY; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; UNILAMELLAR LIPOSOMES;

EID: 84908407715     PISSN: 00093084     EISSN: 18732941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2014.08.002     Document Type: Article

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