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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016-05-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11575 |