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. 2014 Oct 30;44(3):197–208. doi: 10.1007/s11084-014-9365-6

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

(Left, Ourisson and Nakatani 1994) Hypothetical mechanism of the reinforcement of lipidic membranes by cholesterol, hopanoids, α, ω-dipolar carotenoids, and bis(diphytanylglyceryl) phospholipids. (Right) Structure and molecular dimension of three membrane reinforcers: cholesterol, bacteriohopane tetrol, bacterioruberine