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THE quantity of distearyl lecithin which has to be added to washed human red cells to produce the disk–sphere transformation has already been described1; 108 disks require 5–10γ, but how much of the material is adsorbed on the red cell surface is unknown.
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PONDER, E., PONDER, R. Quantity of Radioactive Lecithin and Radioactive Cephalin with Lipositol required to produce Sphering of Mammalian Red Cells. Nature 180, 814 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180814a0
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