Experimental verification of lipid bilayer structure through multi-scale modeling
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Lipid bilayer structure.
Fluctuations, inherent in flexible and biologically relevant lipid bilayers, make quantitative structure determination challenging. Shortcomings in older methods of structure determination have been realized and new methodologies have been introduced that take fluctuations into account. The large uncertainty in literature values of lipid bilayer structural parameters is being reduced.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0005-2736
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2009.07.006