Lysenin forms a voltage-dependent channel in artificial lipid bilayer membranes

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 346, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 288-292

  Ide, Toru ^a,b   Aoki, Takaaki ^a   Takeuchi, Yuko ^a   Yanagida, Toshio ^a  

^a Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lysenin; Planar bilayer; Single channel; Sphingomyelin

Indexed keywords

AZOLECTIN; LIPID; LYSENIN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN; SPHINGOMYELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; IONIC STRENGTH; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ION CHANNELS; LIPID BILAYERS; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROTEINS;

EID: 33744976321     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.05.115     Document Type: Article

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