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Addition of cholesterol alters the hydration at the surface of model lipids: a spectroscopic investigation

Published:2022 Issue:34 Volume:24 Page:20381-20389
ISSN:1463-9076
Container-title:Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Author:

Pyne Sumana¹,Pyne Partha¹,Mitra Rajib Kumar¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemical Biological and Macromolecular Sciences, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block JD, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India

Abstract

Cholesterol modifies the flexibility of lipid membranes and allows bulk-like water to protrude into phospholipid interfaces, thus the H-bonds at the interface become weak resulting in faster hydration dynamics.

Funder

Science and Engineering Research Board

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/CP/D2CP01905A

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