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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Biochim Biophys Acta. 2008 Oct 1;1788(1):53–63. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2008.09.010

Figure 9.

Figure 9

Three mechanisms for approaching a critical point as shown in figure 1d. (A) Temperature is changed at a constant membrane composition. (B) The ratio of existing lipids in a membrane is changed at constant temperature. (C) Introduction of new membrane components or crosslinking of lipids or proteins shifts the phase boundary to a higher temperature.