title: Detection of unusual lipid mixing in cholesterol-rich phospholipid bilayers: the long and the short of it.
abstract: Nearest-neighbor recognition studies have revealed that favored sterol-phospholipid associations can be reversed in a fluid bilayer that contains relatively long (high melting) and short (low melting) phospholipids, when the sterol content is sufficiently high; that is, like-lipids now become favored nearest-neighbors. A possible origin of this effect is briefly discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA.
authors.forename: Nobuya
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tokutake
authors.forename: Bingwen
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jing
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Regen
mesh_terms: D002784:Cholesterol / Q000737:chemistry*; D007700:Kinetics; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry*; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000737:chemistry*; D013261:Sterols / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D010743:Phospholipids; D013261:Sterols; D002784:Cholesterol