Phase diagram of a 4-component lipid mixture: DSPC/DOPC/POPC/chol

Autor: James D. Mastroianni, Tatyana M. Konyakhina, Frederick A. Heberle, Jing Wu, Gerald W. Feigenson
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1828(9):2204-2214
ISSN: 0005-2736
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.05.020
Popis: We report the first 4-component phase diagram for the lipid bilayer mixture, DSPC/DOPC/POPC/chol (distearoylphosphatidylcholine/dioleoylphosphatidylcholine/1-palmitoyl, 2-oleoylphosphatidylcholine/cholesterol). This phase diagram, which has macroscopic Ld + Lo phase domains, clearly shows that all phase boundaries determined for the 3-component mixture containing DOPC transition smoothly into the boundaries for the 3-component mixture containing POPC, which has nanoscopic phase domains of Ld + Lo. Our studies start from two published ternary phase diagrams, and show how these can be combined into a quaternary phase diagram by study of a few hundred samples of intermediate compositions.
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