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Biophysical Journal 14: 178-188 (1974)
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Spin Label Translational Diffusion in Solid Tristearin

G. E. Cohn, A. D. Keith and Wallace Snipes

ABSTRACT

Translational diffusion of the intermediate chain length spin label 7N14 has been detected and studied in a lipid environment which is in the bulk solid state. Under favorable circumstances this can occur at temperatures as much as 50°C below the optical melting point. Translational diffusion allows 7N14 molecules to coalesce into impurity pools of high spin label concentration. Two other spin labels, 2N3 and 14N27, do not show a tendency to form such impurity pools. While 2N3 undergoes rapid tumbling at temperatures far below the melting point of the tristearin matrix, the molecules remain in an isolated state with no evidence of spin exchange. 14N27 is restricted in rotational motion in the solid matrix and also does not form impurity pools.






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