New Paper: “Two coexisting membrane structures are defined by lateral and transbilayer interactions between sphingomyelin and cholesterol”
Sphingomyelin and cholesterol are prominent lipids in the plasma membrane of animal cells. In this manuscript, we have combined X-ray scattering experiments, performed by our collarborator Prof. Peter Quinn (KCL, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science), and all-atom molecular dynamics to investigate the bilayer structures observed within an equimolar mixture of palmitoylsphingomyelin …