Reply to Nagle et al.: The universal stiffening effects of cholesterol on lipid membranes

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 May 18;118(20):e2102845118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2102845118.

Rana Ashkar^{1

2}, Milka Doktorova³, Frederick A Heberle⁴, Haden L Scott^{5

6}, Francisco N Barrera⁷, John Katsaras^{5

6

8}, George Khelashvili^{9

10}, Michael F Brown^{11

12}

¹ Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061; ashkar@vt.edu.
² Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.
³ Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22903.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37966.
⁵ Large Scale Structures Group, Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831.
⁶ Shull-Wollan Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831.
⁷ Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996.
⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996.
⁹ Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065.
¹⁰ Institute of Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065.
¹¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; ashkar@vt.edu.
¹² Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.

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