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  • Title: Analysis of the defect structure of gel-phase lipid.
    Author: Lee AG.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1977 Mar 08; 16(5):835-41. PubMed ID: 191057.
    Abstract:
    The partitioning of the spin label 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl-1-oxy (Tempo) into phosphatidylcholine bilayers and the monomer-aggregate equilibrium for chlorophyll a incorporated into phosphatidylcholine bilayers have been interpreted in terms of the formation of defects in the gel-phase lipid, starting some 20 degrees C below the temperature of the main gel to liquid crystalline phase transition. By contrast, defects seem to be largely absent from bilayers of dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine in the gel phase. The defect structure accounts for the continuous nature of the phase transition for phosphatidylcholines, and also for the increase in width of the transition caused by the addition of alcohols.
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