Table 3.

Published temperatures $T_c$ of the experimental lamellar gel to liquid-crystalline phase transition of mixed-chain phosphatidylcholines containing an sn-1 palmitoyl (16:0) chain and various sn-2 unsaturated fatty acid chains

Lipid	$T_c$ (K)	Method	Refs.
16:0/18:2(n-6)cis PC	253.15	DSC	Lynch and Steponkus (1989)
	253.65	DSC	Keough et al. (1989)
	254.45	DSC	Hernandez-Borrell and Keough (1993)
	$253.55\pm 0.4$	Lipid database	Koynova and Caffrey (1998)
16:0/18:3(n-3)cis PC	$258.15\pm 0.5$	${}^2$H NMR	McCabe et al. (1994)
16:0/20:4(n-6)cis PC	250.65	Raman spectr.	Litman et al. (1991)
	$252.55\pm 0.2$	DSC	Hernandez-Borrell and Keough (1993)
	250.65	Lipid database	Koynova and Caffrey (1998)
16:0/22:6(n-3)cis PC	261.85	DSC	Hernandez-Borrell and Keough (1993)
	$265.3\pm 0.5$	${}^2$H NMR	Barry et al. (1991)
	266.65	${}^2$H NMR	Deese et al. (1981)
	270.15	Raman spectr.	Litman et al. (1991)
	270.15	Lipid database	Koynova and Caffrey (1998)

For abbreviations, see footnote in Table 2