Charge-dependent translocation of the Trojan peptide penetratin across...

Biophysical Journal;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......that affect the peptide binding to lipid membranes and its permeation through the bilayer...synthetic sources. They are also called Trojan peptides because they are able to enter the...al., 1998). It should be noted that Trojan peptides spontaneously cross cell membranes...

Single GUV Method Reveals Interaction of Tea Catechin (-)-Epigallocatechin...

Biophysical Journal;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......activity. Several studies indicate that lipid membranes are one of the targets of the antibacterial...the interaction of catechins with lipid membranes remain unclear. In this study, we...single GUV method. We prepared GUVs of lipid membranes of egg PC in a physiological ion ...

Analyzing heat capacity profiles of peptide-containing membranes: Cluster...

Biophysical Journal;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......peptide and protein partitioning in lipid membranes is of high relevance for the understanding...behavior on heat capacity profiles of lipid membranes with the aim to predict peptide aggregation...antibiotic peptide gramicidin A with lipid membranes. The shape of the heat capacity ...

A Critical Reassessment of Penetratin Translocation Across Lipid Membranes

Biophysical Journal;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......peptide across negatively charged lipid membranes. Confocal laser scanning microscopy...fluorescence spectroscopy on black lipid membranes confirmed this finding, which was...direct permeation of penetratin across lipid membranes without permeabilization (8,9). More...

Effects of the eukaryotic pore-forming cytolysin equinatoxin II on lipid...

Biophysical Journal;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......pores in sphingomyelin-containing lipid membranes. The perturbation by EqtII of model lipid membranes composed of dimyristoylphosphatidycholine...in sphingomyelin-containing mixed lipid membranes compared with pure phosphatidylcholine...

Permeability of Psoralen Derivatives in Lipid Membranes

Biophysical Journal;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......saturated and partially unsaturated lipid membranes. Within the simulations, strong accumulation...cross-links between forucoumarins and lipid membranes are well known to occur (6,7), and...complexes found were to unsaturated lipid membranes, even higher than the observed ...

Colloid Adsorption onto Responsive Membranes

Biophysical Journal;  May 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Adsorption of biomacromolecules onto lipid membranes is of great biological and technological...packaging in viral capsids with internal lipid membranes (1), DNA adsorption onto liposomes...using various model systems. However, lipid membranes are not static, Hat homogeneous ...

Hydration and molecular motions in synthetic phytanyl-chained glycolipid...

Biophysical Journal;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......fluorescent phospholipid in branch-chained lipid membranes were more restricted than those in...proton permeability of branch-chained lipid membranes. INTRODUCTION Archaea inhabit under...salt concentration; therefore, their lipid membranes are considered to be chemically and...

Relaxation kinetics of lipid membranes and its relation to the heat...

Biophysical Journal;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......investigated the relaxation behavior of lipid membranes close to the chain-melting transition...understand time scales of state changes of lipid membranes. Since the classical paper of Tsong and Kanehina (1977), relaxation times of lipid membranes close to the chain-melting ...

Photocurrents Generated by Bacteriorhodopsin Adsorbed on Nano-Black Lipid...

Biophysical Journal;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......lipid bilayers, termed nano-black lipid membranes (nano-BLMs), suspending the pores...adsorption of purple membranes on black lipid membranes (BLMs) has been used to study the...Bamberg and coworkers first established lipid membranes immobilized on solid supports, to...

Intramembrane electrostatic interactions destabilize lipid vesicles

Biophysical Journal;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......considered in mechanical analyses of lipid membranes. In this paper, we use the micropipette...implications on the mechanical properties of lipid membranes. For example, several authors have...electrostatics on the various elastic moduli of lipid membranes both experimentally (Song ...

Oxygen permeation profile in lipid membranes: Comparison with...

Biophysical Journal;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......oxygen permeation profile in fluid lipid membranes is controlled partly by the penetration...the hydrophobic interior of fluid lipid membranes, as a result of the favorable partition...the transmembrane polarity of fluid lipid membranes was determined with high positional...

AFM Study on the Electric-Field Effects on Supported Bilayer Lipid...

Biophysical Journal;  June 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......conductivity of supported bilayer lipid membranes (SLM) have been studied at submicroscoptc...of DC electric fields on supported lipid membranes (SLM) are studied at submicroscopic...been used with great success to study lipid membranes and membrane proteins (13-17). AFM...

Science: Four men who shook the world They are the Oscars of science. This...

The Independent - London;  October 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ......biology textbooks. It is riddled with lipid membranes, folded into intricate, three-dimensional...because it was known that the internal lipid membranes of the cell were tightly sealed. How...opened the molecular gates of the lipid membranes. Five years later he formulated the...

Synthetic membranes smell and taste.

Science News;  August 4, 1990 ;     345 words ......trigger sensory cells in the tongue and nose by adhering to the cells' lipid membranes, and not by latching onto protein receptors. This adsorption presumably...compared with bitter compounds, and their easier penetration into lipid membranes.