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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Multifrequency AFM reveals lipid membrane mechanical properties and the effect of cholesterol in modulating viscoelasticity.

Zeinab Al-Rekabi, Sonia Contera

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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  7. From relaxation to buckling: A continuum elastic framework connecting surface instabilities of highly compressed lipid thin films.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  15. Bacterial lipid biophysics and membrane organization.Current opinion in microbiology · 2023
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  19. Effect of Anionic Lipids on Mammalian Plasma Cell Membrane Properties.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2023
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2 authors.

Zeinab Al-RekabiClarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, OX1 3PU Oxford, United Kingdom zeinab.al-rekabi@physics.ox.ac.uk s.antoranzcontera1@physics.ox.ac.uk.
Sonia ConteraClarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, OX1 3PU Oxford, United Kingdom zeinab.al-rekabi@physics.ox.ac.uk s.antoranzcontera1@physics.ox.ac.uk.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The physical properties of lipid bilayers comprising the cell membrane occupy the current spotlight of membrane biology. Their traditional representation as a passive 2D fluid has gradually been abandoned in favor of a more complex picture: an anisotropic time-dependent viscoelastic biphasic material, capable of transmitting or attenuating mechanical forces that regulate biological processes. In establishing new models, quantitative experiments are necessary when attempting to develop suitable techniques for dynamic measurements. Here, we map both the elastic and viscous properties of the model system 1,2-dipalmitoyl-

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Cell MembraneCholesterolElasticityLipid BilayersMicroscopy, Atomic ForceModels, BiologicalViscosityCholesterolLipid BilayersAM–FM AFMcholesterolDPPCmultifrequency AFM

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PMID29483271
PMCPMC5856542

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