Charge-induced phase separation in lipid membranes
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Charge-induced phase separation in lipid membranes.
Phase separation in lipid bilayers that include negatively charged lipids is examined experimentally. We observed phase-separated structures and determined the membrane miscibility temperatures in several binary and ternary lipid mixtures of unsaturated neutral lipid, dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC), saturated neutral lipid, dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC), unsaturated charged lipid, d...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Soft Matter
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1744-683X,1744-6848
DOI: 10.1039/c4sm01089b