A theory of phase transitions and phase diagrams for one- and two-component phospholipid bilayers
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 16 (20), 4349-4359
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00639a004
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 2-component bilayers.In addition to providing an accurate representation of the transition temperatures and enthalpies of 1-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 2 different hydrocarbon chain lengths.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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