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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 23.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Colloid Interface Sci. 2014 Jan 30;208:177–188. doi: 10.1016/j.cis.2014.01.016

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The structure of several common mammalian phospholipids that can be found in the plasma membrane along with their charge ranges under physiological conditions. The length and level of saturation in the hydrocarbon acyl chains, denoted R1 and R2, varies depending on head group, location in the cell, and other factors.