The ripple structure was studied as a function of temperature in fully hydrated dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC)/cholesterol multibilayers using synchrotron x-ray small-angle diffraction and freeze-fracture electron microscopy. In the presence of cholesterol, the ripple structure appears below the pretransition temperature of pure DMPC multibilayers. In this temperature range the ripple periodicity is relatively large (25-30 nm) and rapidly decreases with increasing temperature. In this region, defined as region I, we observed coexistence of the P beta' phase and the L beta' phase. The large ripple periodicity is caused by the formation of the P beta' phase region in which cholesterol is concentrated and the L beta' phase region from which cholesterol is excluded. An increase in ripple periodicity also takes place in the narrow temperature range just below the main transition temperature. We define this temperature region as region III, where the ripple periodicity increases dramatically toward the main transition temperature. In region II, between regions I and III, the ripple periodicity decreases gradually with temperature. This behavior is quite similar to that of pure DMPC. Temperature-versus-ripple periodicity curves are parallel among pure DMPC and DMPCs with various cholesterol contents. We explain this behavior in terms of a model proposed by other workers.
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