“…Although our model is based on lecithin-bile salt mixtures, variants of the model could perhaps be applied to other systems, in particular other lipid-detergent mixtures (Jiskoot et al, 1986;Kaler et al, 1989;Edwards and Almgren, 1991;Silvander et al, 1996;O'Connor et al, 1997;Campbell et al, 1998;Brinkmann et al, 1998;Chen et al, 1999;Marques, 2000;Ollivon et al, 2000;Almgren, 2000;Xia et al, 2002;Schmölzer et al, 2002) or lipid-peptide mixtures (Dufourc et al, 1986;Saitoh et al, 1998;Suezaki et al, 1999), which undergo a similar micelle-to-vesicle transition. Because the parameters L,k k; and a m are independently accessible for various other systems, it should be possible to predict and understand their behavior based on the model we present here; we are currently investigating this.…”