Membrane disintegration caused by the steroid saponin digitonin is related to the presence of cholesterol

Molecules

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 20146-20160

  Sudji, Ikhwan Resmala ^a   Subburaj, Yamunadevi ^b,c   Frenkel, Nataliya ^a,d   García Sáez, Ana J ^b   Wink, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcein release; Cholesterol; Digitonin; Dynamic light scattering; Giant unilamellar vesicles; Membrane permeability

Indexed keywords

CALCEIN; CHOLESTEROL; DIGITONIN; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE; LIPID BILAYER; SAPONIN; STEROID;

ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMOLYSIS; LIPID BILAYER; METABOLISM; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHOLESTEROL; DIGITONIN; ERYTHROCYTES; FLUORESCEINS; HEMOLYSIS; LIPID BILAYERS; SAPONINS; SHEEP; STEROIDS;

EID: 84949974995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules201119682     Document Type: Article

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