A high resolution electro-optical approach for investigating transition of soluble proteins to integral membrane proteins probed by colicin A

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 427, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 385-391

  Honigmann, Alf ^a,b   Pulagam, Lakshmi Padmavathi ^a,c   Sippach, Michael ^a   Bartsch, Philipp ^a   Steinhoff, Heinz Jürgen ^a   Wagner, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial bilayer; Colicin A; Colicin A oligomerization; Electro optical recording; Fluorescence; Membran Protein insertion; Membrane

Indexed keywords

COLICIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

COLICINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ION CHANNEL GATING; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SOLUBILITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84867858604     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.09.069     Document Type: Article

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