Fluorescent membrane probes' behavior in lipid bilayers: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations

Biophysical Reviews

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 141-148

  Loura, Luís M S ^a,b   Prates Ramalho, J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Membrane perturbation; Molecular simulation; Phospholipid

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649156898     PISSN: 18672450     EISSN: 18672469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12551-009-0016-5     Document Type: Review

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