A calorimetric and spectroscopic comparison of the effects of cholesterol and its immediate biosynthetic precursors 7-dehydrocholesterol and desmosterol on the thermotropic phase behavior and organization of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine bilayer membrane
Keywords: CHOL, cholesterol (5-cholestene-3β-ol); 7DHC, 7-dehydrocholesterol (5,7-cholestadiene-3β-ol); DES, desmosterol (5,24-cholestadiene-3β-ol); LATH, lathosterol (7-cholestene-3β-ol); aCHOL, allocholesterol (4-cholestene-3β-ol); PC, phosphatidylcholine; DPPC,