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Abstract
Lipid bilayer membranes are indispensable parts of cellular architecture. One of the integral properties of bilayer membranes is the environmental heterogeneity over a wide range of spatiotemporal scales. The environmental heterogeneity is a manifestation of the dynamic and compositional anisotropy in the plane of the membrane as well as along the bilayer normal. Fluorescence lifetime distribution analysis provides a spectroscopic tool to quantitatively characterize such heterogeneities. The review discusses recent applications of fluorescence lifetime distribution analysis utilizing the maximum entropy method to characterize horizontal and vertical heterogeneities in membranes.Entities:
Keywords: Fluorescence lifetime distribution; Heterogeneity; Lipid Bilayer; Maximum entropy method
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Year: 2022 PMID: 35486159 DOI: 10.1007/s00232-022-00235-z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Membr Biol ISSN: 0022-2631 Impact factor: 2.426