Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA.
J Membr Biol. 2020 Jun;253(3):185-190. doi: 10.1007/s00232-020-00126-1. Epub 2020 Jun 3.
The path to our modern understanding of the structure of the lipid bilayer membrane is a long one that can be traced from today perhaps as far back as Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century. Here, I provide a personal account of one of the important steps in that path, the description of the "Complete Structure" of a hydrated, fluid phase dioleoyl phosphatidylcholine bilayer by the joint refinement of neutron and X-ray diffraction data by Stephen White and his colleagues.
我们对脂质双层膜结构的现代理解之路漫长,或许可以追溯到 18 世纪的本杰明·富兰克林。在这里,我将讲述这条道路上的重要一步,即斯蒂芬·怀特(Stephen White)及其同事通过联合解析中子和 X 射线衍射数据,描述水合、流态二油酰基磷脂酰胆碱双层的“完整结构”。