Permeability of large unilamellar digalactosyldiacylglycerol vesicles for protons and glucose - Influence of α-tocopherol, β-carotene, zeaxanthin and cholesterol

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 179-186

  Berglund, Anna H ^a   Nilsson, Ralf ^a   Liljenberg, Conny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carboxyfluorescein; Galactolipid; Model membranes; Pyranine; Thylakoid

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033005117     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0981-9428(99)80032-1     Document Type: Article

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