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Cell membrane fluidity: Molecular modeling of particle aggregations seen in electron microscopy
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Cell membrane fluidity: Molecular modeling of particle aggregations seen in electron microscopy

Leonard Finegold
Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes, v 448(2), pp 393-398
1976
PMID: 971438

Abstract

The first simulation of the fluid mosaic model is reported. Intra-membrane particles, initially “placed” randomly in a membrane with fluid properties, are allowed to diffuse in the plane of the membrane and to interact with one another, in a model using molecular parameters. The resulting particle aggregates are very similar to those observed in freeze-fracture electron microscopy.

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