The response of giant phospholipid vesicles to pore-forming peptide melittin

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1768, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1179-1189

  Mally, Mojca ^a   Majhenc, Janja ^a   Svetina, Saša ^a,b   Žekš, Boštjan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Dimers; Directed lipid flow; Lysis; Membrane permeability; Tension pores

Indexed keywords

MELITTIN; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; DIMERIZATION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MICROMANIPULATION; PHOSPHOLIPID VESICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEOMICS;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; LIPOSOMES; MELITTEN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEPTIDES; PERMEABILITY; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; SUCROSE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34047270717     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2007.02.015     Document Type: Article

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