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Line active hybrid lipids determine domain size in phase separation of saturated and unsaturated lipids.


ABSTRACT: 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 into account by an effective change in the headgroup areas and the domain sizes are predicted to increase with cholesterol concentration.

SUBMITTER: Brewster R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2849051 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Line active hybrid lipids determine domain size in phase separation of saturated and unsaturated lipids.

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]

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