Biophysical Journal 45: 589-592 (1984)
© 1984 the Biophysical Society

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Magnetic anisotropy of lecithin membranes. A new anisotropy susceptometer.

ABSTRACT

Cylindrical giant vesicles prepared from egg lecithin and 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) are oriented in an external magnetic field and observed by phase contrast microscopy. The anisotropic part of the diamagnetic susceptibility of the lecithin membrane is determined from the distribution of angles between the magnetic field and the long cylinder axis due to thermal fluctuations. The anisotropy of DMPC is found to be larger by a factor of 2 than that of egg lecithin. This is attributed to the presence of unsaturated acyl chains in egg lecithin.

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