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Science 19 November 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3699, pp. 1035 - 1036
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3699.1035
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Crystal and Molecular Structure of a Phospholipid Component: L-agr-Glycerophosphorylcholine Cadmium Chloride Trihydrate

M. Sundaralingam 1 and L. H. Jensen 1

1 Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle

The structure of L-agr-glycerophosphorylcholine cadmium chloride trihydrate has been determined by the conventional, single-crystal, x-ray diffraction technique. The phospholipid component displays the characteristic gauche conformation for the choline residue and the gauche-gauche conformation for the glycerol moiety. Therefore, a possible model for the structures of phospholipids is similar to that proposed by Finean.


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