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Crosslinking a Lipid Raft Component Triggers Liquid Ordered-Liquid Disordered Phase Separation in Model Plasma Membranes by Hammond, A. T., Heberle, F. A., Baumgart, T., Holowka, D., Baird, B., Feigenson, G. W., Simons, Kai

“…The mechanisms by which a cell uses and adapts its functional membrane organization are poorly understood and are the subject of ongoing investigation and…”
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Calculation of Liquid-Disordered/Liquid-Ordered Line Tension from Pairwise Lipid Interactions by Huang, J, Hiraki, S, Feigenson, G W

“…The energy penalty for bilayer phase domain interfaces, line tension, is an important quantity for describing the phase domain size transition from the…”
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A Microscopic Interaction Model of Maximum Solubility of Cholesterol in Lipid Bilayers by Huang, Juyang, Feigenson, Gerald W.

“…We recently reported the equilibrium maximum solubility of cholesterol in a lipid bilayer, χ * chol, to be 0.66 in four different phosphatidylcholines, and…”
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Ternary Phase Diagram of Dipalmitoyl-PC/Dilauroyl-PC/Cholesterol: Nanoscopic Domain Formation Driven by Cholesterol by Feigenson, Gerald W., Buboltz, Jeffrey T.

“…A ternary phase diagram is proposed for the hydrated lamellar lipid mixture dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine/dilauroylphosphatidylcholine/cholesterol…”
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On the nature of calcium ion binding between phosphatidylserine lamellae by Feigenson, G. W

“…Ca2+ binding between phosphatidylserine (PS) lamellae gives rise to a phase with the composition Ca(PS)2. When aqueous Ca2+, hydrated PS, and Ca(PS)2 coexist…”
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Monte Carlo simulation of lipid mixtures: finding phase separation by Huang, J., Feigenson, G.W.

“…The nonideal mixing of phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylcholine (PC) binary lipid mixtures was studied by computer simulation based on a model wherein…”
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Characterization of Lipid Bilayer Phases by Confocal Microscopy and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy by Korlach, Jonas, Schwille, Petra, Webb, Watt W., Feigenson, Gerald W.

“…We report the application of confocal imaging and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) to characterize chemically well-defined lipid bilayer models for…”
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Nonideal mixing of phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylcholine in the fluid lamellar phase by Huang, J., Swanson, J.E., Dibble, A.R., Hinderliter, A.K., Feigenson, G.W.

“…The mixing of phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylcholine (PC) in fluid bilayer model membranes was studied by measuring binding of aqueous Ca2+ ions. The…”
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Maximum solubility of cholesterol in phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine bilayers by Huang, Juyang, Buboltz, Jeffrey T., Feigenson, Gerald W.

“…In any lipid bilayer membrane, there is an upper limit on the cholesterol concentration that can be accommodated within the bilayer structure; excess…”
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Detection of phase separation in fluid phosphatidylserine/phosphatidylcholine mixtures by Hinderliter, A.K., Huang, J., Feigenson, G.W.

“…The nonideal mixing of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoserine, (16:0, 18:1)PS, and 1,2-didodecenoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, (12:1, 12:1)PC, in…”
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Partitioning behavior of indocarbocyanine probes between coexisting gel and fluid phases in model membranes by Spink, C H, Yeager, M D, Feigenson, G W

“…Gel-fluid partition coefficients, Kp, were measured for a series of indocarbocyanine dyes in multilamellar lipid vesicles. The dyes examined had alkyl chain…”
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A novel strategy for the preparation of liposomes: rapid solvent exchange by Buboltz, Jeffrey T, Feigenson, Gerald W

“…During the preparation of multi-component model membranes, a primary consideration is that compositional homogeneity should prevail throughout the suspension…”
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Phosphorus NMR analysis of phospholipids in detergents by London, E, Feigenson, G W

“…Various detergents can be used to dissolve phospholipids, resulting in very narrow 31PNMR resonances. The resonances are well resolved, allowing identification…”
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Regulatory Mechanisms of the Acrosome Reaction Revealed by Multiview Microscopy of Single Starfish Sperm by Sase, Ichiro, Okinaga, Tatsuyuki, Hoshi, Motonori, Feigenson, Gerald W., Kinosita, Kazuhiko

“…The acrosome reaction in many animals is a coupled reaction involving an exocytotic step and a dramatic change in cell shape. It has been proposed that these…”
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Phase separation in lipid membranes by Heberle, Frederick A, Feigenson, Gerald W

“…Cell membranes show complex behavior, in part because of the large number of different components that interact with each other in different ways. One aspect…”
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Fluorescence quenching in model membranes: phospholipid acyl chain distributions around small fluorophores by Yeager, Mark D, Feigenson, Gerald W

“…Fluorescence quenching in lipid bilayers is treated by a new approach based on calculation of the probability distribution of quenching and nonquenching acyl…”
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Thermodynamics of mixing of phosphatidylserine/phosphatidylcholine from measurements of high-affinity calcium binding by Swanson, Joy E, Feigenson, Gerald W

“…A simple model system is described that allows measurement of equilibrium Ca2+ binding to multilamellar vesicle mixtures of palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylserine…”
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Uranyl acetate induces gel phase formation in model lipid and biological membranes by Caffrey, M., Morris, S.J., Feigenson, G.W.

“…The effect of uranyl acetate on the mesomorphic phase state of lipids in model membranes as well as in isolated biological membranes has been examined. As…”
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Nuclear magnetic relaxation behavior of lecithin multilayers by Feigenson, G. W, Chan, Sunney I

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Influence of the calcium-induced gel phase on the behavior of small molecules in phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylserine-phosphatidylcholine multilamellar vesicles by Florine, Kathryn I, Feigenson, Gerald W

“…The behavior of fluorescent and spin-label probes is examined in several fluid and gel phospholipid phases, with particular focus on the Ca2+-induced gel phase…”
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