Effect of repetitive lysine-tryptophan motifs on the eukaryotic membrane

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2190-2202

  Gopal, Ramamourthy ^a   Lee, Jong Kook ^a   Lee, Jun Ho ^a   Kim, Young Gwon ^a   Oh, Gwang Chae ^b   Seo, Chang Ho ^b   Park, Yoonkyung ^a  

^a Chosun University   (South Korea)

^b Kongju National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Cholesterol; Eukaryotic membrane; Hemolytic peptide; Phosphatidylcholine; Sphingomyelin

Indexed keywords

CALCEIN; CHOLESTEROL; LIPOSOME; LYSINE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; SPHINGOMYELIN; TRYPTOPHAN; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ERYTHROCYTE; EUKARYOTE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HEMOLYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; EUKARYOTIC CELL;

EUKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; LYSINE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PEPTIDES; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84878657069     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms14012190     Document Type: Article

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