Revealing the mechanism of passive transport in lipid bilayers via phonon-mediated nanometre-scale density fluctuations

The passive transport of molecules through a cell membrane relies on thermal motions of the lipids. However, the nature of transmembrane transport and the precise mechanism remain elusive and call for a comprehensive study of phonon excitations. Here we report a high resolution inelastic X-ray scatt...

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Main Authors: Zhernenkov, Mikhail, Bolmatov, Dima, Soloviov, Dmitry, Zhernenkov, Kirill, Toperverg, Boris P., Cunsolo, Alessandro, Bosak, Alexey, Cai, Yong Q.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4865866/