title: Tilt: major factor in sterols' ordering capability in membranes.
abstract: Using extensive atomistic simulations, we show that there is a single experimentally accessible parameter--the sterol tilt--that can be used to determine a sterol's capability to induce order, and thus to promote, e.g., formation of lipid rafts. The observations also facilitate designing new effective sterols.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
authors.forename: Jussi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aittoniemi
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Róg
authors.forename: Perttu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Niemelä
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pasenkiewicz-Gierula
authors.forename: Mikko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karttunen
authors.forename: Ilpo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vattulainen
mesh_terms: D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D013261:Sterols / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D013261:Sterols