title: Components of the lateral pressure in lipid bilayers deduced from HII phase dimensions.
abstract: The components of the effective internal lateral pressure arising from the lipid headgroups and the lipid chains in bilayer membranes are deduced from the conditions for interfacial equilibrium and the spontaneous bending moments within the component monolayers. The latter are obtained from the intrinsic curvature that is deduced from X-ray diffraction measurements on the corresponding inverted hexagonal (HII) lipid phases.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marsh
mesh_terms: D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry*; D008433:Mathematics; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines / Q000737:chemistry*; D011312:Pressure; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines