Process of inducing pores in membranes by melittin

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

Volumn 110, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 14243-14248

  Lee, Ming Tao ^a,b   Sun, Tzu Lin ^c   Hung, Wei Chin ^d   Huang, Huey W ^c  

^a NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Oriented circular dichroism; Rhombohedral phase; Toroidal pore

Indexed keywords

1,2 DISTEAROYL(9 10 DIBROMO) SN GLYCERO 3 PHOSPHOCHOLINE; 2 OLEOYL 1 PALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; ALAMETHICIN; DILAUROYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; DIOLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; DIOLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL; DYE; GLYCEROPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE DERIVATIVE; LIPID; MELITTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRON; HYDRATION; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID VESICLE; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY VESICLE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ORIENTED CIRCULAR DICHROISM; RHOMBOHEDRAL PHASE; TOROIDAL PORE;

ION TRANSPORT; LIPID BILAYERS; MELITTEN; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84883409216     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307010110     Document Type: Article

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