Heterogeneous MAC Initiator and Pore Structures in a Lipid Bilayer by Phase-Plate Cryo-electron Tomography

Cell Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-8

  Sharp, Thomas H ^a   Koster, Abraham J ^a,b   Gros, Piet ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complement; Electron tomography; Membrane attack complex; Membrane pore; Phase plate; Subtomogram average

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C5B 6; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C6; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C7; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C8; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C9; COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX; LIPOSOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LIPID BILAYER; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE FORMATION; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHASE PLATE CRYO ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIPID BILAYERS; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 84963538105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.03.002     Document Type: Article

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