Highly impermeable vesicles composed of conformationally restricted phosphatidylethanolamine.

Chem Commun (Camb)

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.

Published: July 2002

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Vesicles composed of a phosphatidylethanolamine derivative with a cyclopropyl-containing interfacial region are twenty-seven times less permeable than vesicles composed of a closely related analogue.

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