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Cluster buckling as a result of compression-bending balance in lipid bilayer
1Department of Biophysics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice. marek@saske.sk
General Physiology and Biophysics
|June 21, 2001
Abstract:
A new approach supporting the possibility of cluster buckling during the main phase transition in the lipid bilayer is presented. The elastic energy is calculated via harmonic approximation which yields the potential minimum in the case of buckling cluster, if critical cluster size is achieved. The significance of this event for interbilayer interaction in multilamellar vesicles is discussed.