Revealing the mechanism of passive transport in lipid bilayers via phonon-mediated nanometre-scale density fluctuations

The molecular transport through bio-membranes of cells heavily relies on the dynamics of lipids, but the related mechanism remains unknown. Here, Zhernenkov et al. observe the propagating transverse phonon mode with a finite band gap and suggest its connection to short-lived local lipid clustering.

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Main Authors: Mikhail Zhernenkov, Dima Bolmatov, Dmitry Soloviov, Kirill Zhernenkov, Boris P. Toperverg, Alessandro Cunsolo, Alexey Bosak, Yong Q. Cai
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/da09e5c3d7454328bfb9c839d5f16f93
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