title: Electron diffraction of wet biological membranes.
abstract: Electron diffraction patterns were obtained for the first time from single wet phospholipid bilayers and from wet human erythrocyte membranes by using a temperature-controlled electron microscope hydration stage. Selective area diffraction showed the existence of semicrystalline domains. A structural transition was observed at the transition temperature of the wet dipalmitoyl lecithin bilayer.
mesh_terms: D002462:Cell Membrane; D003461:Crystallography; D004583:Electrons; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D008722:Methods; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D010743:Phospholipids
chemical_list: D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D010743:Phospholipids