Taming membranes: Functional immobilization of biological membranes in hydrogels

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Kusters, Ilja ^a   Mukherjee, Nobina ^a   de Jong, Menno R ^b   Tans, Sander ^c   Koçer, Armaǧan ^a   Driessen, Arnold J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOSOME; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NANOFIBER; PROTEIN SECA; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; SECA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; SECYEG PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROGEL; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; PROTEIN IMMOBILIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYDROGELS; LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; UNILAMELLAR LIPOSOMES;

EID: 79957907777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020435     Document Type: Article

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