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Phospholipid phase transitions in homogeneous nanometer scale bilayer discs

Andrew W Shaw1, Mark A McLean, Stephen G Sligar

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.

FEBS Letters
|January 7, 2004
PubMed
Summary

Nanodiscs, nanoscale protein-lipid complexes, exhibit broader lipid phase transitions than vesicles. This unique characteristic makes them a more biologically relevant model for studying cellular membrane dynamics.

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