The basic property of biomembranes
| Autor: | Willy S. Bont |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Quantitative Biology::Biomolecules
Physics::Biological Physics Materials science Surface Properties Vesicle Fatty Acids Lipid Bilayers Lipid microdomain Molecular Conformation General Medicine Geometric progression Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter Quantitative Biology::Subcellular Processes Geometric series Perfect crystal Liquid crystal Chemical physics Genetics Lipid bilayer Molecular Biology Unilamellar Liposomes |
| Zdroj: | Molecular Biology Reports. 36:959-964 |
| ISSN: | 1573-4978 0301-4851 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11033-008-9268-6 |
| Popis: | In order to explain the experimentally obtained results with biomembranes it has been assumed, that the diameter of all vesicles, defined by a lipid bilayer, form a perfect crystal. Later on it appeared that biomembranes are liquid crystals. Nevertheless already with biomembranes as crystals it was possible to calculate the diameters of all existing vesicles. As shown in the present paper, the results with liquid crystals were identical to those with a perfect crystal-model. Here I demonstrate that the geometric progression of the diameters of vesicles of biomembranes is based on the entropy of the lipids and it is shown that the diameters of biomembranes fit four geometric series. The surface areas of these series of biomembranes can be approximated by the two geometric series published previously. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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