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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 30.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2007;398:41–58. doi: 10.1007/978-1-59745-513-8_5

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

16:0 SM-cholesterol average molecular area vs composition analysis. Plots are shown for three different surface pressures in mN/m (5, squares; 15, circles; 30 triangles). The linear plots show the average molecular area obtained by calculation using the molecular areas of pure 16:0 SM and cholesterol, each apportioned by mole fraction. The nonlinear curves represent the experimentally observed areas for the mixtures. Negative deviation from ideal additivity (linear plots) shows the condensing or ordering effect of cholesterol.