Direct visualization of the alamethicin pore formed in a planar phospholipid matrix

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 52, 2012, Pages 21223-21227

  Pieta, Piotr ^a,b   Mirza, Jeff ^a   Lipkowski, Jacek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Interface; Langmuir Blodgett

Indexed keywords

ALAMETHICIN; NANOCRYSTAL; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHOLIPID; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROCHEMICAL SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; HYDROPHILICITY; IMAGE QUALITY; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY;

ALAMETHICIN; ANIMALS; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; GOLD; ION CHANNELS; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OVUM; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROLS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84871832622     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201559110     Document Type: Article

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