Calculations suggest a pathway for the transverse diffusion of a hydrophobic peptide across a lipid bilayer

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2322-2330

  Kessel, Amit ^a   Schulten, Klaus ^b   Ben Tal, Nir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALAMETHICIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LIPID; OLEIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DIFFUSION; ENERGY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; ROTATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033747198     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(00)76478-2     Document Type: Article

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