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Nature Chemical Biology 2, 560–563 (1 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/nchembio1106-560

Phase behavior of lipid mixtures

Gerald W Feigenson

A picture of a biological membrane that includes compositional and phase heterogeneity is consistent with many observations on cells. Simons and van Meer pointed this out to explain the sorting of proteins to their distinctive membrane locations.