title: A theoretical model for lipid mixtures, phase transitions, and phase diagrams.
abstract: We present a new model for the thermodynamic properties of lipid bilayers. The model consists of a system of hard cylinders of varying radii that correspond to the different molecular radii of lipids having different numbers of gauche rotations in their chains. Scaled particle theory is used to provide an accurate estimate of the entropy of packing of the cylinders. To apply the model to bilayers we introduce a semiempirical attractive potential energy. Once the form of this potential is chosen, we adjust one parameter, the interaction strength, so that the model fits the transition temperatures and entropies for various phospholipids. The model then agrees quite well with other published data for these systems. We also directly generalize our model to lipid mixtures, and we obtain phase diagrams that we compare to existing data for these systems. We use the model to describe lipid protein interactions in bilayers as well.
mesh_terms: D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D011506:Proteins; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D011506:Proteins
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