Reconstitution of cholesterol-dependent vaginolysin into tethered phospholipid bilayers: Implications for bioanalysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Budvytyte, Rima ^a,c   Pleckaityte, Milda ^a   Zvirbliene, Aurelija ^a   Vanderah, David J ^b   Valincius, Gintaras ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CYTOLYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VAGINOLYSIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHOLESTEROL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYTOTOXINS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPOSOMES; MUTATION;

EID: 84892665272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082536     Document Type: Article

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