Insertion of short amino-functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes into phospholipid bilayer occurs by passive diffusion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Kraszewski, Sebastian ^a   Bianco, Alberto ^b   Tarek, Mounir ^c   Ramseyer, Christophe ^a  

^a Université de Franche Comté   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ENDOCYTOSIS; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID TRANSPORT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PASSIVE TRANSPORT; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANE;

AMINES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DIFFUSION; LIPID BILAYERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROTONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84864008601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040703     Document Type: Article

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