Inter-lamellar link

There are interesting recent reports linking membrane fusion to cubic lipid phases [9] or to reversed (or "inverted") phases [62]. So-called "inter-lamellar attachments", formed between the bilayers of liposomes on fusion, show freeze-fracture electron micrograph textures identical to those of a cubic lipid-water phase (see Fig. 5.9). The inter-lamellar attachments seem to be identical to "lipidic particles" described earlier [63]. It is also interesting to note that diacylglycerols, secondary messengers from the Pl-cycle, produce fusion in... 

Figure 3.21 Sketch of inter-crystalline links near the surface of a growing spherulite. (a) Plan view of lamellar faces (b) edge view of the lamellae.

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