Structure of the body-centered cubic phase of lipid systems does not consist of indefinitely long straight rods

  1. Vittorio Luzzati,
  2. Annette Tardieu, and
  3. Tadeusz Gulik-Krzywicki
  1. 1Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, 91190 Gif sur yvette, France

Abstract

The observed intensities of the reflections from the body-centered cubic phase of lipid systems are shown to be incompatible with a recently reported model consisting of straight, indefinitely long rods.

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