Viscotropic effects

Viscotropic effects in cells cultured at a single temperature may be indicative of effects that result from immediate temperature-dependent changes in lipid order and from subsequent adaptive alterations in lipid composition. Acute decreases in temperature increase static order and thereby increase resistance to conformational movements however, the compensatory decrease in intrinsic membrane order in cold-adapted or cold-acclimatized organisms (figure 7.21) resulting from changes in composi-... 

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