Lipid bilayer structure.

Curr Opin Struct Biol

Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

Published: August 2000

Fluctuations, inherent in flexible and biologically relevant lipid bilayers, make quantitative structure determination challenging. Shortcomings in older methods of structure determination have been realized and new methodologies have been introduced that take fluctuations into account. The large uncertainty in literature values of lipid bilayer structural parameters is being reduced.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722933PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0959-440x(00)00117-2DOI Listing

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