Stochastic transport through carbon nanotubes in lipid bilayers and live cell membranes

Nature

Volumn 514, Issue 7524, 2014, Pages 612-615

  Geng, Jia ^a,b,c   Kim, Kyunghoon ^a,c,d   Zhang, Jianfei ^b   Escalada, Artur ^e   Tunuguntla, Ramya ^a,c   Comolli, Luis R ^c   Allen, Frances I ^c,f   Shnyrova, Anna V ^e   Cho, Kang Rae ^a   Munoz, Dayannara ^a   Wang, Y Morris ^a   Grigoropoulos, Costas P ^d   Ajo Franklin, Caroline M ^c   Frolov, Vadim A ^e,g   Noy, Aleksandr ^a,b,c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^f Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^g BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; DNA; ION; LIPOSOME; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN F; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; PORIN; PROTON; ION CHANNEL; LIPID BILAYER;

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; ION EXCHANGE; LIPID; MEMBRANE; PROTEIN; SENSOR; STOCHASTICITY; SUBSTRATE; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTANCE; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; ION CURRENT; IONIC STRENGTH; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID COMPOSITION; MACROMOLECULE; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NANOPORE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PH; PROTON TRANSPORT; WATER TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CHO CELL LINE; CRICETULUS; HEK293 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; STATISTICS; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHO CELLS; CRICETULUS; DNA; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPOSOMES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PORINS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84908403150     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13817     Document Type: Article

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