Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1596208 | Solid State Communications | 2006 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The proposed existence of cholesterol-rich lipid rafts in eucaryotic plasma membranes has led to a large number of studies on the influence of cholesterol on the structure and phase behaviour of model membranes. In this article we first give a brief overview of the phase behaviour of membranes made up of binary and ternary lipid–cholesterol mixtures determined from these experiments, and then present the results of our recent x-ray diffraction and fluorescence microscopy studies on these systems. Our observations suggest a possible resolution of the reported discrepancy in the phase behaviour of these systems obtained using different experimental techniques.
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Authors
S. Karmakar, B.R. Sarangi, V.A. Raghunathan,