Brownian ratchets: Molecular separations in lipid bilayers supported on patterned arrays

Science

Volumn 285, Issue 5430, 1999, Pages 1046-1048

  Van Oudenaarden, Alexander ^a   Boxer, Steven G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GEOMETRY; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

4-CHLORO-7-NITROBENZOFURAZAN; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; DIFFUSION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; TEMPERATURE; XANTHENES;

EID: 0033551860     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5430.1046     Document Type: Article

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32. Supported in part by a grant from the NSF Biophysics Program, by the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Program of the NSF under award DMR-9808677, and by a grant from SmithKline Beecham. A.v.O. acknowledges the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for financial support. We acknowledge very useful discussions and insights from J. T. Groves in the development of this project and valuable comments and suggestions on the manuscript by R. D. Astumian. The Stanford Nanofabrication Facility is acknowledged for support in fabrication.