CellWell record HH-3972
Lipid peroxidation modifies the picture of membranes from the "Fluid Mosaic Model" to the "Lipid Whisker Model".
Catalá A
Biochimie · 2012
In plain language
Peroxidized fatty acids gain a polar oxygen atom that reorients the acyl chain toward the membrane surface, described by the lipid whisker model of membrane structure.
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