Membrane lipids: it's only a phase.
All biological membranes contain lipids that prefer to adopt a non-bilayer phase. Recent results suggest that, in the thylakoid membrane, membrane proteins force all the lipids to adopt a bilayer structure, and that the non-bilayer-forming lipids in the thylakoid membrane serve to drive the formation of membrane stacks.
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Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO 16 7PX, UK.
D002736:Chloroplasts / Q000737:chemistry; D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D008563:Membrane Lipids / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008954:Models, Biological; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena
D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D008563:Membrane Lipids; D008565:Membrane Proteins