Polymeric nonelectrolytes to probe pore geometry: Application to the α- toxin transmembrane channel

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3023-3033

  Merzlyak, Petr G ^a,b   Yuldasheva, Liliya N ^a   Rodrigues, Cláudio G ^a   Carneiro, Carlos M M ^a   Krasilnikov, Oleg V ^a,b   Bezrukov, Sergey M ^c,d,e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences   (Uzbekistan)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; MACROGOL; MACROGOL 1000; MACROGOL 1450; MACROGOL 200; MACROGOL 2000; MACROGOL 300; MACROGOL 3000; MACROGOL 3400; MACROGOL 400; MACROGOL 4600; MACROGOL 600; POLYMER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ALPHA TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PH;

EID: 0032795084     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77133-X     Document Type: Article

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