Question: Compressing a biological membrane under physiological conditions, such adding water pressure on the membrane or stretching a lipid bilayer under tension, can induce a phase

Compressing a biological membrane under physiological conditions, such adding water pressure on the membrane or stretching a lipid bilayer under tension, can induce a phase transition that follow the Clausius-Clapeyron equation: (dTm/dp)= ( TmV/H) Consider a lipid membrane undergoing such a transition. What is the pressure-dependence of that lipid phase transition, given that DH 1.0 mN (milliNewton) at 298K for such a transition which has an associated volume change of about a micron cubed?

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