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Andrey Ivankin1, Ivan Kuzmenko, David Gidalevitz.
Abstract
We report a structural study of cholesterol-DPPC (1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phophocholine) monolayers using x-ray reflectivity and grazing incidence x-ray diffraction. Reflectivity reveals that the vertical position of cholesterol relative to phospholipids strongly depends on its mole fraction (chi(CHOL)). Moreover, we find that at a broad range of chi(CHOL) cholesterol and DPPC form alloylike mixed domains of short-range order and the same stoichiometry as that of the film. Based on the data presented, we propose a new model of cholesterol-phospholipid organization in mixed monolayers.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20366454 PMCID: PMC2880613 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.108101
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161