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Several recent studies1–5 have reported particles in freeze-fracture replicas of mixed phospholipid dispersions. The precise molecular arrangement of the particles is, however, still unknown6,7. We have previously shown that similar particles occur in dispersions of mixed sn-3- galactosyldiacylglycerols8. We demonstrate here that the particles seen in galactolipid mixtures correspond to inverted lipid micelles sandwiched within a membrane bilayer.
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Sen, A., Williams, W., Brain, A. et al. Formation of inverted micelles in dispersions of mixed galactolipids. Nature 293, 488–490 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/293488a0
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