Phase transitions and fluidity characteristics of lipids and cell membranes

D Chapman - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 1975 - cambridge.org
The concept that the liquid crystalline or mesomorphic condition was of importance to
biological systems is a relatively old idea. Thus Bernal (1933) when discussing the different …

Phase separations in phospholipid membranes

SHW Wu, HM McConnell - Biochemistry, 1975 - ACS Publications
Phase diagrams representing lateral phase sep-arations in the plane of lipid bilayer
membranes have been determined for binary mixtures containing …

Lipid bilayer phase transition: density measurements and theory

JF Nagle - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 1973 - National Acad Sciences
The overall change of density for dipalmitoyl lecithin bilayers agrees with a general order-
disorder theory and yields about seven gauche rotations per molecule for the biologically …

On the reversibility of the phase transitions in lipid-water systems

B Tenchov - Chemistry and physics of lipids, 1991 - Elsevier
Heating and cooling phase sequences observed in phospholipid and glycolipid dispersions
in excess water have been summarized. Differences between heating and cooling …

Membrane models with phospholipids

AD Bangham - Progress in biophysics and molecular biology, 1968 - Elsevier
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Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance investigations of phase transitions and phase equilibriums in pure and mixed phospholipid bilayers

RJ Wittebort, A Blume, TH Huang, SK Das Gupta… - Biochemistry, 1982 - ACS Publications
RJ Wittebort, 1 A. Blume, 8 T.-H. Huang, SK Das Gupta, and RG Griffin* abstract: The
temperature dependence of the 13C NMR spectra of dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine …

Lateral phase separation in phospholipid membranes

EJ Shimshick, HM Mcconnell - Biochemistry, 1973 - ACS Publications
Edward J. ShimshickJ and Harden M. McConnell* abstract: The phase diagrams of aqueous
dispersions of binary mixtures of dimyristoyl-, dipalmitoyl-, and …

Cooperativity of the phase transition in single-and multibilayer lipid vesicles

D Marsh, A Watts, PF Knowles - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 1977 - Elsevier
The effect of membrane morphology on the cooperativity of the ordered-fluid, lipid phase
transition has been investigated by comparing the transition widths in extended, multibilayer …

Cubic phases and isotropic structures formed by membrane lipids—possible biological relevance

G Lindblom, L Rilfors - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 1989 - Elsevier
Membrane lipids like other amphiphilic molecules can form a variety of different lyotropic
liquid crystallille phases. Among these, the lamellar phase with its muhibilayer structure has …

Polymorphism of the bilayer membranes in the ordered phase and the molecular origin of the lipid pretransition and rippled lamellae

G Cevc - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes, 1991 - Elsevier
The lamellar-to-undulated-lamellar phase transition (L β′→ P β′, pretransition) in lipid
bilayers is shown to be a phenomenon which exists only if lipid polar headgroups are …