Dissecting the membrane binding and insertion kinetics of a pHLIP peptide

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 8250-8252

  Tang, Jia ^a   Gai, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; LIPID BILAYERS;

BI-LAYERS; BOUND STATES; MEMBRANE ASSOCIATION; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE INTERACTION; MEMBRANE-BOUND; OVERALL RATE; STOPPED-FLOW TECHNIQUES;

MEMBRANES;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PH (LOW) INSERTION PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; FLOW KINETICS; MEMBRANE BINDING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 49449096024     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi801103x     Document Type: Article

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