"Primitive" Membrane from Polyprenyl Phosphates and Polyprenyl Alcohols

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 313-319

  Streiff, Stéphane ^a   Ribeiro, Nigel ^a   Wu, Zhengyan ^a   Gumienna Kontecka, Elzbieta ^b   Elhabiri, Mourad ^b   Albrecht Gary, Anne Marie ^b   Ourisson, Guy ^a   Nakatani, Yoichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Physico Chimie Bioorganique   (France)

Author keywords

CHEMBIOL

Indexed keywords

3,7,11,15-TETRAMETHYL-2,4,6,10,14-HEXADECAPENTAENOIC ACID; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ISOPRENOID PHOSPHATE; POLYPRENOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID; TERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; KINETICS; PERMEABILITY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY;

ALCOHOLS; KINETICS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PERMEABILITY; POLYISOPRENYL PHOSPHATES; TERPENES; TRETINOIN; WATER;

EID: 33947201732     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2006.11.017     Document Type: Article

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