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. 1973 Dec;70(12 Pt 1-2):3443–3444. doi: 10.1073/pnas.70.12.3443

Lipid Bilayer Phase Transition: Density Measurements and Theory

J F Nagle 1,2
PMCID: PMC427255  PMID: 4519637

Abstract

The overall change of density for dipalmitoyl lecithin bilayers agrees with a general order-disorder theory and yields about seven gauche rotations per molecule for the biologically relevant high-temperature phase. The shape of the curve of density against temperature is similar to the result of an exact calculation on a specific model, which gives a 3/2-order phase transition.

Keywords: biomembranes, rotational isomeric order-disorder theory

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