Improving the design of a MscL-based triggered nanovalve

Biosensors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 171-184

  Iscla, Irene ^a   Eaton, Christina ^a   Parker, Juandell ^a   Wray, Robin ^a   Kovács, Zoltán ^b   Blount, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosensor; Drug delivery; Hydrophobic gating; Mechanosensor; Nanovalve; Osmoregulation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEINS; TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DRUG RELEASE; HYDROPHOBIC GATING; HYDROPHOBICS; MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNEL; MECHANOSENSORS; NANO-DEVICES; NANOVALVES; OSMOREGULATION; SMALL PROTEINS;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCEIN; LIPOSOME; MSCL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VIVO STUDY; NANODEVICE; NANOVALVE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP;

EID: 84879192306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20796374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/bios3010171     Document Type: Article

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