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Electrophoretic Light Scattering of Red Cell Membrane Vesicles: A Study of the Electrical Charges of the Cytoplasmic Membrane Surface

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Scattering Techniques Applied to Supramolecular and Nonequilibrium Systems

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Abstract

The membrane of human red blood cells is structurally asymmetric in that most, if not all, of its constituent molecules are oriented in such a manner that different groups are exposed at each membrane surface. Carbohydrates are restricted to the external surface and peripheral proteins to the cytoplasmic surface. Integral proteins which span the membrane are always asymmetrically arranged. Of the major phospholipids, the ones at the outer surface are mainly the choline phosphatides, while the inwardly facing ones are amino lipids.1,2,3

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  1. Departments of Chemistry and Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 13210, USA

    W. S. Yen, R. W. Mercer, B. R. Ware & P. B. Dunham

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Sow-Hsin Chen

  2. State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, USA

    Benjamin Chu

  3. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Ralph Nossal

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Yen, W.S., Mercer, R.W., Ware, B.R., Dunham, P.B. (1981). Electrophoretic Light Scattering of Red Cell Membrane Vesicles: A Study of the Electrical Charges of the Cytoplasmic Membrane Surface. In: Chen, SH., Chu, B., Nossal, R. (eds) Scattering Techniques Applied to Supramolecular and Nonequilibrium Systems. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 73. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4061-4_52

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