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Deuterium magnetic resonance: theory and application to lipid membranes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

Joachim Seelig
Joachim Seelig
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Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Biocenter of the University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Proton and carbon-13 nmr spectra of unsonicated lipid bilayers and biological membranes are generally dominated by strong proton–proton and proton–carbon dipolar interactions. As a result the spectra contain a large number of overlapping resonances and are rather difficult to analyse. Nevertheless, important information on the structure and dynamic behaviour of lipid systems has been provided by these techniques (Wennerström & Lindblom, 1977).

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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , August 1977 , pp. 353 - 418
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