Phase behavior of lipid mixtures

1 November 2006

journal article
review article
Published by Springer Nature in Nature Chemical Biology

Vol. 2 (11) , 560-563
https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio1106-560

Abstract

Biological membranes are two-dimensional mixtures of an enormous number of different components. Modeling cell membranes as simple bilayer mixtures reveals rich phase behavior, but how can we use the observed phase behavior to understand the real membranes?

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