Recent Experiments Support a Microemulsion Origin of Plasma Membrane Domains: Dependence of Domain Size on Physical Parameters
It is widely, but not universally, believed that the lipids of the plasma membrane are not uniformly distributed, but that “rafts” of sphingolipids and cholesterol float in a “sea” of unsaturated lipids. The physical origin of such heterogeneities is often attributed to a phase coexistence between t...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Membranes |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0375/10/8/167 |