One of the more resistant problems in structural biology has been to define the structure and
function of the liquid region of biological membranes. This is related to the fact that liquids …

▪ Abstract The observation of liquid-liquid immiscibility in cholesterol-phospholipid mixtures
in monolayers and bilayers has opened a broad field of research into their physical …

Animal cell membranes pose conceptual problems related to the physical chemistry of
liquids. An avenue to the solution of some of these problems has been opened by the …

There is overwhelming evidence that lipid bilayer regions of animal cell membranes are in a
liquid state. Quantitative models of these bilayer regions must then be models of liquids …

Mixtures of dihydrocholesterol and phospholipids form immiscible liquids in monolayer
membranes at the air-water interface under specified conditions of temperature and 2 …

Many mixtures of phospholipids and cholesterol form immiscible liquid phases in a
monolayer at an air− water interface. As discovered recently, some binary mixtures of …

The interaction of cholesterol with lipid membranes has been studied by differential
scanning calorimetry on liposomes, a technique which involves only the natural lipids, with …

The study of membranes takes the biochemist into very unfamiliar territory—the nature and
theory of mixtures. Mixtures are generally avoided in biochemistry as far as is possible, but …

The nearest-neighbor preferences of three exchangeable lipid monomers (two
phospholipids that differ in length, A and B, and a derivative of cholesterol, C) have been …

Experimental studies are reviewed to construct a model for the hydrocarbon chain
disordering in “fluid” phospho-lipid bilayers. Together with approximate expressions for the …