Cholesterol's location in lipid bilayers

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

Volumn 199, Issue , 2016, Pages 17-25

  Marquardt, Drew ^a,b   Kučerka, Norbert ^c,d   Wassall, Stephen R ^e   Harroun, Thad A ^f   Katsaras, John ^f,g,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b BIOTECHMED GRAZ   (Austria)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^d Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Lipid domains; Membrane dynamics; Membrane structure; Sterol

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; LIPID BILAYER; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; LIPID MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLID STATE; CHEMISTRY; LIPID BILAYER; METABOLISM;

CHOLESTEROL; LIPID BILAYERS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

EID: 84963973737     PISSN: 00093084     EISSN: 18732941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2016.04.001     Document Type: Article

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