The cubic phases

doi:10.1016/S0959-440X(05)80068-5

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volume 1, Issue 4, August 1991, Pages 501-505

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Recent papers dealing with lipid cubic phases are discussed. The image reconstruction of freeze-fracture electron micrographs and fluorescence bleaching techniques are the major experimental novelties. The determination of the structure of the phase Q²²⁷ (space group Fd3m) is particularly important and confirms an earlier proposal by Charvolin and Sadoc.

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The cubic phases

Biochim Biophys Acta

Biochim Biophys Acta

X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Lipid—Water Systems

The Structure of the Liquid Crystalline Phases of Lipid—Water Systems

J Cell Biol

The Cubic Phases of Lipid-Containing Systems: Physical Structure and Biological Implications

Lipid Polymorphism Revisited: Structural Aspects and Biological Implications

Infinite Periodic Minimal Surfaces and Their Crystallography in the Hyperbolic Plane

Acta Crystallogr [A]

Cubic Lipid—Water Phases: Structures and Biomembrane Aspects

J Phys Chem

Cubic Phases in Surfactant and Surfactant-Like Lipid Systems

Colloid Polym Sci

Polymorphism of a Lipid Extract from Pseudomonas fluorescens: Structure Analysis of a Hexagonal Phase and of a Novel Cubic Phase of Extinction Symbol Fd- -

Biochemistry

X-ray Crystallography at Macromolecular Resolution: a Solution of the Phase Problem

Makromol Chem Macromol Symp

Structural Studies of Phospholipid Cubic Phases

Prog Colloid Polym Sci

Image Analysis of Freeze Fractured Lipid-Water Cubic Phases of Space Group la3d

J Physique (Colloq)

Modulated Fringe Pattern Photobleaching Applied to Lipid—Water Cubic Phases: Structural Information

J Physique (Colloq)

A New Technique for Studying Microstructures: 2H NMR Bandshapes of Polymerized Surfactants and Counterions in Microstructures Described by Minimal Surfaces

J Physique (Colloq)

Self-Diffusion in Bicontinuous Cubic Phases, L3 Phases and Microemulsions

J Phys Chem

Structure of Cubic Mesomorphic Phases Determined by Low Temperature Transmission Electron Microscopy and Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering

J Phys Chem

Structural Features of the Cubic Phase of a Ternary Surfactant System

J Physique (Colloq)

Symmetry Transition in the Cubic Phase of a Ternary Surfactant System

J Physique

A New Technique for Studying Microstructures: ²H NMR Bandshapes of Polymerized Surfactants and Counterions in Microstructures Described by Minimal Surfaces

Self-Diffusion in Bicontinuous Cubic Phases, L₃ Phases and Microemulsions