Various order and disorder phenomena in lipid bilayers are considered as they arise due to
the very many-particle character of the bilayer. Particular attention is paid to dynamically …

Publisher Summary The central problem of membrane structure and its correlation with
physiological and biochemical functions is to define the organization of constituent …

The lipid‐bilayer component of cell membranes is an aqueous bimolecular aggregate
characterized by a heterogeneous lateral organization of its molecular constituents. The …

Lipid bilayers exhibit a phase behavior that involves two distinct, but coupled, order-disorder
processes, one in terms of lipid-chain crystalline packing (translational degrees of freedom) …

Integrating the available data on lipid-protein interactions and ordering in lipid mixtures
allows to emanate a refined model for the dynamic organization of biomembranes. An …

Cholesterol is the single most abundant molecule in animal plasma membranes, in the
range of 20–30 mol%, where it is known to modulate the lipid-bilayer component of the …

The noniform lateral and transbilayer lipid arrangement existing in two-component lipid
bilayers are reviewed. The lateral lipid organization is considered on the basis of the …

The physico chemical properties of lipid layers and membranes which are of special interest
in connection with processes in organized molecular assemblies are summarized. In …

Most biological membranes are extremely complex structures consisting of hundreds or
even thousands of different lipid and protein molecules. The prevailing view regarding the …

Using the lattice model for a liquid, we treat the packing of short-chain molecules in
interphases such as bilayer membranes. The constant density in the interphase imposes …