Influence of Cholesterol on Water Penetration into Bilayers
- 2 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 216 (4541) , 65-67
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7063872
Abstract
X-ray diffraction and capacitance measurements have been used to calculate the depth to which water penetrates in fully hydrated bacterial phosphatidylethanolamine bilayers in the presence and absence of cholesterol. The data indicate that cholesterol decreases the depth of water penetration by about 2.5 angstroms.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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