Biological membranes are two-dimensional mixtures of an enormous number of different components. Modeling cell membranes as simple bilayer mixtures reveals rich phase behavior, but how can we use the observed phase behavior to understand the real membranes?
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This work was supported by US National Science Foundation grant MCB-0315330 to G.W.F. The author thanks J. Zhao and F. Heberle for helpful discussions.
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Feigenson, G. Phase behavior of lipid mixtures. Nat Chem Biol 2, 560–563 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio1106-560
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