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. 2016 Jun 24;4:65. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2016.00065

Table 1.

Selected literature values of the hydrophobic thickness 2 DC and area per lipid A of fluid DMPC bilayers.

Method and membrane model 2 DC/Å A/Å2
This study 2H-NMR on oriented bilayers 22.9 58.9
de Planque et al., 1998 2H-NMR on multilamellar vesicles 22.5 61.8
Petrache et al., 2000 2H-NMR on multilamellar vesicles 25.2 61.4
Kučerka et al., 2005 X-ray on unilamellar vesicles and oriented bilayers 25.4 60.6
Petrache et al., 1998 X-ray on multilamellar vesicles 26.2 59.7