Lipid-polyethylene glycol interactions: II. Formation of defects in bilayers
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in The Journal of Membrane Biology
- Vol. 62 (1-2), 71-77
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01870201
Abstract
Polyethylene glycol, a known cell fusogen, is found to induce the formation of structural defects in egg phosphatidylcholine multilamellar vesicles, as shown by freeze-fracture microscopy.31P NMR spectra of these vesicles reveal the existence of a nonbilayer (isotropic) phase. The observed disruption in the bilayers is believed to be associated with an intermediate stage of membrane fusion.This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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