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Area/lipid of bilayers from NMR
1Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.
Biophysical Journal
|May 1, 1993
Abstract:
Values of area per lipid A ranging from 56 to 72 A 2 have been reported from essentially the same SCD data from DPPC in the L alpha phase. The differences are due primarily to three separate binary choices in interpretation. It is argued that one particular combination is best; this yields A = 62 +/- 2 A 2 for DPPC at 50 degrees C. Each preceding interpretation agrees with at least one of the three present choices and disagrees with at least one.