Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Polymorphism of Lecithins

  • Article
  • Published:

From Nature

View current issue Submit your manuscript

Abstract

Lecithin–water systems display a variety of phases. Several of these phases, observed at a high temperature in the presence of small amounts of water, belong to a class of structures recently discovered in the anhydrous divalent cation-soaps. In these structures the polar groups are clustered in rod-shaped regions, embedded in a disordered paraffin matrix. In one of the phases the rods are infinitely long; in two others the rods are of finite length, and join three by three, forming two and three-dimensional networks.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Luzzati, V., Tardieu, A., and Gulik-Krzywicki, T., Nature, 217, 1028 (1968).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Singleton, W. S., Gray, M. S., Brown, M. L., and White, J. L., J. Amer. Oil Chem. Soc., 42, 53 (1965).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Luzzati, V., in Biological Membranes (edit. by Chapman, D.) (Academic Press, in the press).

  4. Gulik-Krzywicki, T., Rivas, E., and Luzzati, V., J. Mol. Biol., 27, 303 (1967).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Skoulios, A. E., and Luzzati, V., Acta Cryst., 14, 278 (1961).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Chapman, D., Williams, R. M., and Ladbrooke, B. D., Chem. Phys. Lipids, 1, 445 (1967).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Reiss-Husson, F., J. Mol. Biol., 25, 363 (1967).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Small, D. M., and Bourgès, M., Mol. Crystals, 1, 541 (1966).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Luzzati, V., and Husson, F., J. Cell Biol., 12, 207 (1962).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Luzzati, V., and Spegt, P. A., Nature, 215, 701 (1967).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Luzzati, V., and Reiss-Husson, F., Nature, 210, 1351 (1966).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, 91, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    VITTORIO LUZZATI, T. GULIK-KRZYWICKI & A. TARDIEU

Authors
  1. VITTORIO LUZZATI
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. T. GULIK-KRZYWICKI
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. A. TARDIEU
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

LUZZATI, V., GULIK-KRZYWICKI, T. & TARDIEU, A. Polymorphism of Lecithins. Nature 218, 1031–1034 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2181031a0

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/2181031a0

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation