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  • Title: [Free-radical label--new approach to the study of dynamics of lipid systems].
    Author: Omel'ianenko VG, Mikhaĭlov AI, Torchilin VP, Smirnov VI, Gol'danskiĭ VI.
    Journal: Mol Biol (Mosk); 1981; 15(1):54-9. PubMed ID: 6278294.
    Abstract:
    A new method of EPR-spectroscopy--the recombination of free radicals appearing as a result of indirect radiolysis of biological molecules after a low temperature irradiation--is applied to the study of molecular dynamics of phosphatidylcholine dimyristoyl in mass and in the structure of liposomes above and below the transition temperature. It was shown, that the mobility of lipid molecules in crystalline liposomes is higher than in the structure of liquid-crystalline liposomes. The addition of cholesterol in liposome membranes decreases the lateral molecular motion of lipids in crystalline and liquid-crystalline state, in the latter case the effect of cholesterol addition is more pronounced. The activation energy for the displacement of the fragments of lipid molecules and the lipid molecule as a whole was estimated, and it was shown, that lipid matrix possesses a high degree of heterogeneity.
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