A screwlike rippled surface is a unique feature of the lipid nanotubes (see picture) that formed spontaneously in a dispersion of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylcholine (DMPC). Their unusual morphology may be explained by a kinetically trapped state after many small unilamellar vesicles have undergone fusion.
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