Hydrocarbon phase transitions, heterogeneous lipid distributions and lipid-protein interactions in erythrocyte membranes
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Hydrocarbon phase transitions, heterogeneous lipid distributions and lipid-protein interactions in erythrocyte membranes.
A membrane state transition has been reported to occur in erythrocyte ghosts in the region of 20°C [ 1,2] which has been tentatively identified as a gel-liquid crystalline phase transition of some portion of the membrane lipids. Such a phase transition would be surprising as the high cholesterol content of the erythrocyte membrane would be expected to eliminate phase transition phenomena if the...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: FEBS Letters
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0014-5793
DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(76)80430-9