Theory of biomembrane phase transitions

JF Nagle - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 1973 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Theoretical models of phospholipid phase transitions

OG Mouritsen - Chemistry and physics of lipids, 1991 - Elsevier
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 …

Statistical mechanics of biomembrane phase transition. I. Excluded volume effects of lipid chains in their conformation change

T Izuyama, Y Akutsu - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 1982 - journals.jps.jp
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 …

Lipid phase transitions and phase diagrams II. Mixtures involving lipids

AG Lee - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 1977 - Elsevier
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 …

A theory of phase transitions and phase diagrams for one-and two-component phospholipid bilayers

RE Jacobs, BS Hudson, HC Andersen - Biochemistry, 1977 - ACS Publications
'John SimonGuggenheim Memorial Fellow. of the transition temperatures and enthalpies of
one-component bilayers composed of 1, 2-diacylphosphatidylcholines, the theory can also …

Phase transitions in lipids

H Träuble - … : Passive Permeability of Cell Membranes: A satellite …, 1972 - Springer
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 …

Some models for lipid bilayer and biomembrane phase transitions

HL Scott - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 1975 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Lipid phase transitions and phase diagrams I. Lipid phase transitions

AG Lee - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 1977 - Elsevier
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 …

Phospholipid phase transitions. Effects of n-alcohols, n-monocarboxylic acids, phenylalkyl alcohols and quatenary ammonium compounds

AW Eliasz, D Chapman, DF Ewing - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 1976 - Elsevier
The interactions of a series of alcohols, acids and quaternary ammonium salts with a
phosphatidylcholine-water model biomembrane (dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine) system …

Biomembrane phase transitions: studies of lipid-water systems using differential scanning calorimetry

D Chapman, J Urbina, KM Keough - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1974 - ASBMB
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 …