Experiments on the chain melting thermal transition in simple biological membranes are
briefly reviewed and shown to indicate that a microscopic order‐disorder model may be …

A brief review is given of the theoretical models and calculational methods used to study the
main phase transition in phospholipid membranes with particular emphasis on recent …

The main phase transition of a membrane is attributed to conformation changes of the
hydrocarbon chains constituting the lipid bilayers. The excluded volume effect, which is …

Those interested in molecular interactions in biological membranes are in a very fortunate
position, since a convenient and relevant model system is readily available--the lipid bilayer …

'John SimonGuggenheim Memorial Fellow. of the transition temperatures and enthalpies of
one-component bilayers composed of 1, 2-diacylphosphatidylcholines, the theory can also …

The physico-chemical characterization of phospholipid interactions is one of the important
problems in membrane biology. The research groups of Chapman, van Deenen and Luzzati …

Biological membranes consist to a large extent of lipid bilayers, some of which exhibit fairly
sharp phase transitions near body temperatures. We describe here a model for the main …

The lipid composition of biological membranes is complex, and it is an article of faith
amongst membranologists that this complexity serves a purpose. Quite what the purpose is …

The interactions of a series of alcohols, acids and quaternary ammonium salts with a
phosphatidylcholine-water model biomembrane (dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine) system …

Differential scanning calorimetry has been applied to the study of some simple model
biomembranes, ie lipid-water systems, and the endothermic phase transitions which they …