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Studying lipid flip-flop in asymmetric liposomes using 1H NMR and TR-SANS

Dominik Dziura1, Maksymilian Dziura1, Drew Marquardt2

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada.

Methods in Enzymology
|July 6, 2024
PubMed

Keywords:
Asymmetric vesicles (aLUVs)Flip-flopKineticsNuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)Small angle neutron scattering (SANS)Time resolved SANS (TR-SANS)

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