| Literature DB >> 14692747 |
Honghua Cao1, Nobuya Tokutake, Steven L Regen.
Abstract
The results of nearest-neighbor recognition experiments that have been carried out with exchangeable dimers derived from 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine and 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine, in the presence of cholesterol, dihydrocholesterol, coprostanol, cholestane, cholesteryl methy ether, and sitosterol, provide strong support for a condensing mechanism in which the flexible acyl chains of the phospholipids complement, perfectly, the shape of neighboring sterols, thereby leading to a high number of hydrophobic contacts and tight packing.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID： 14692747 DOI： 10.1021/ja039172x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Am Chem Soc ISSN： 0002-7863 Impact factor: 15.419