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  • Title: A theory of phase transitions and phase diagrams for one- and two-component phospholipid bilayers.
    Author: Jacobs RE, Hudson BS, Andersen HC.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1977 Oct 04; 16(20):4349-59. PubMed ID: 911760.
    Abstract:
    A statistical mechanical partition function for phospholipid bilayers is constructed to obtain a theoretical description of the chain melting phase transition in lipid bilayer membranes and of the phase diagrams for two-component bilayers. In addition to providing an accurate representation of the transition temperatures and enthalpies of one-component bilayers composed of 1,2-diacylphosphatidylcholines, the theory can also account for the shapes of the phase diagrams observed for bilayers which are binary mixtures of these compounds with two different hydrocarbon chain lenghts.
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