SHAPES OF FINITE TWO-DIMENSIONAL LIPID DOMAINS
SHAPES OF FINITE TWO-DIMENSIONAL LIPID DOMAINS
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DOI:
10.1021/j100326a053
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发表时间:
1988-07-28
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通讯作者:
MOY, VT
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作者:
MCCONNELL, HM;MOY, VT
Background Theory and Model Assumptions Here we review briefly a simple model for the shapes of finite two-dimensional crystal domains of phospholipid at the air-water interface. Again it is assumed that the pure solid and pure fluid phases are incompressible, so that when the monolayer is com-pressed to convert fluid to solid, in this intermediate region, the area of the trough and the quantity of lipid present together define the area of the lipid that is solid. It is observed experimentally that, for a number of lipids, the solid is divided into a large number of small, finite-sizeddomains, surrounded by fluid. Thesolid domains repel one another due to electrostatic forces. 2 345" 10 In the simplest model the shape of an individual solid domain is determined by the interplay of the moleculardipolar electrostatic forces Fel and the line tension X of the boundary between fluid and solid regions.