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. 2013 Aug 6;105(3):657–666. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.06.042

Table 1.

Lipid composition of membrane mimics

Lipid Mole percentage
HIV HIV-chol HIV-neg T-cell
C 16 Ceramide 0.8 1.5 1.0 1.1
Soy Phosphoinositol (PI) 1.3 2.3 0 6.3
Brain PI(4)P 1.3 2.3 0 0.9
Brain PI(4,5)P2 1.3 2.3 0 1.1
12:0 diHydroSphingomyelin (diHSM) 1.7 3.1 1.8 2.7
PO-Phosphoethanolamine (POPE) 4.2 7.6 4.7 6.3
PO-Phosphoserine (POPS) 7.5 13.7 0 9.1
Plasmalogen PE 7.5 13.7 8.5 10.9
Egg Sphingomyeline (Egg SM) 14.2 26.0 16.0 16.3
PO-PhosphoCholine (POPC) 15.1 27.5 17.0 15.4
Cholesterol (Chol) 45.2 0 51.0 29.9

Membrane mimics are HIV, HIV-chol (HIV without cholesterol), HIV-neg (HIV without negatively charged lipids), and T-cell. PO stands for palmitoyloleoyl.