Recent developments of the structural study of phospholipid membrane by synchrotron X-ray scattering II.

Oriented multibilayers and monolayers

Abstract

Study on well oriented phospholipid multibilayers is important in getting an evidence for their structures in detail because it is possible to assign the X-ray scattering direction and therefore to give the configuration of molecules. Very high resolution X-ray diffraction experiment for oriented multibilayers is accessible using synchrotron X-ray beam. Recently the Bragg peaks reflected by a monolayer were observed by making the best of extremely high intensity of synchrotron X-ray beam.