. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 15.

Published in final edited form as: Biochim Biophys Acta. 2007 Nov 19;1778(2):414–422. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2007.11.005

Table 2.

Hyperfine spacing, effective water concentration and number of water molecules sensed by the spin probe in the polar shell of LMPC micelles, DMPC vesicles and DMPC-LMPC vesicles at 35 °C.

Mole percentage of LMPC in DMPC vesicles

A₊/G

[H₂O]/M

n_{W}^{S P}

15.895 ± 0.001

15.06 ± 0.04

4.9 (7.2^a)

15.894 ± 0.002

15.02 ± 0.08

4.9

15.942 ± 0.013

17.06 ± 0.55

5.5

15.972 ± 0.002

18.35 ± 0.08

5.9

100

16.110 ± 0.001

24.24 ± 0.04

9.8 (10.2^b)

Nagle and Tristram-Nagle [39].

Calculated from the simple spherical geometry of LMPC micelles [35].