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CONSIDERABLE insight into mechanisms of membrane permeability and transport has been obtained from the study of simple lipid membranes. For the study of membrane–membrane interactions, however, such model systems have been used to a much lesser extent. If present ideas that biological membranes possess extended areas of lipid bilayer are correct, then it is probable that bilayer regions are involved in intermembrane phenomena such as adhesion and fusion, and it becomes reasonable to use simple lipid membranes to mimic such behaviour.
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MARTIN, F., MACDONALD, R. Liposomes can mimic virus membranes. Nature 252, 161–163 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252161a0
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