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SUBMITTER: Brewster R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2849051 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brewster Robert R Safran Samuel A SA
Biophysical journal 20100301 6
A simple model of the line activity of a hybrid lipid (e.g., POPC) with one fully saturated chain and one partially unsaturated chain demonstrates that these lipids preferentially pack at curved interfaces between phase-separated saturated and unsaturated domains. We predict that the domain sizes typically range from tens to hundreds of nm, depending on molecular interactions and parameters such as molecular volume and area per headgroup in the bulk fluid phase. The role of cholesterol is taken ...[more]