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SUBMITTER: Boulgaropoulos B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3149230 | biostudies-other | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Boulgaropoulos Beate B Arsov Zoran Z Laggner Peter P Pabst Georg G
Biophysical journal 20110501 9
We applied x-ray diffraction, calorimetry, and infrared spectroscopy to lipid mixtures of palmitoyl-oleoyl phosphatidylcholine, sphingomyelin, and ceramide. This combination of experimental techniques allowed us to probe the stability and structural properties of coexisting lipid domains without resorting to any molecular probes. In particular, we found unstable microscopic domains (compositional/phase fluctuations) in the absence of ceramide, and macroscopically separated fluid and gel phases u ...[more]