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Bilayer Structure in Membranes

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Diffraction analysis of dispersions of membranes makes it possible to study membranes not in regular arrays. Such analysis shows that a phospholipid bilayer is a predominant structural component of membranes with various different functions.

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  1. A. E. BLAUROCK

    Present address: Universityof California, San Francisco

  2. D. M. ENGELMAN

    Present address: Department of Molecular. Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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  1. MRC Biophysics Unit, King's College, London

    M. H. F. WILKINS & A. E. BLAUROCK

  2. Biophysics Department, King's College, London

    D. M. ENGELMAN

  3. Cardiovascular Research Institute, San Francisco, California, 94122

    A. E. BLAUROCK

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WILKINS, M., BLAUROCK, A. & ENGELMAN, D. Bilayer Structure in Membranes. Nature New Biology 230, 72–76 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio230072a0

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