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Glycans' imprints

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Networks of glycans template multiphase lipid membranes, either by stabilizing large domains at the characteristic length scale of the network if inhomogeneous, or by suppressing macroscopic phase separation if homogeneous.

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Figure 1: The spatial organization of multiphase lipid membranes resting on glycan networks7.
Figure 2: Schematic of a binary miscibility phase diagram of a lipid membrane.

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  1. Jay T. Groves is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA,

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