Self‐assembling organic nanotubes

DT Bong, TD Clark, JR Granja… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Hollow tubular structures of molecular dimensions perform diverse biological functions in
nature. Examples include scaffolding and packaging roles played by cytoskeletal …

Physical properties of the fluid lipid-bilayer component of cell membranes: a perspective

M Bloom, E Evans, OG Mouritsen - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 1991 - cambridge.org
The motivation for this review arises from the conviction that, as a result of the mass of
experimental data and observations collected in recent years, the study of the physical …

Self-assembling organic nanotubes based on a cyclic peptide architecture

MR Ghadiri, JR Granja, RA Milligan, DE McRee… - Nature, 1993 - nature.com
HOLLOW tubular structures of molecular dimensions may offer a variety of applications in
chemistry, biochemistry and materials science. Concentric carbon nanotubes1, 2 have …

The pore dimensions of gramicidin A

OS Smart, JM Goodfellow, BA Wallace - Biophysical journal, 1993 - cell.com
The ion channel forming peptide gramicidin A adopts a number of distinct conformations in
different environments. We have developed a new method to analyze and display the pore …

High-resolution conformation of gramicidin A in a lipid bilayer by solid-state NMR

RR Ketchem, W Hu, TA Cross - Science, 1993 - science.org
Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of uniformly aligned preparations of
gramicidin A in lipid bilayers has been used to elucidate a high-resolution dimeric structure …

Antimicrobial defensin peptides form voltage-dependent ion-permeable channels in planar lipid bilayer membranes.

BL Kagan, ME Selsted, T Ganz… - Proceedings of the …, 1990 - National Acad Sciences
Defensins are cationic, cysteine-rich peptides (Mr= 3500-4000) found in the cytoplasmic
granules of neutrophils and macrophages. These peptides possess broad antimicrobial …

Crystal structure of defensin HNP-3, an amphiphilic dimer: mechanisms of membrane permeabilization

CP Hill, J Yee, ME Selsted, D Eisenberg - Science, 1991 - science.org
Defensins (molecular weight 3500 to 4000) act in the mammalian immune response by
permeabilizing the plasma membranes of a broad spectrum of target organisms, including …

[HTML][HTML] The gramicidin ion channel: a model membrane protein

DA Kelkar, A Chattopadhyay - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2007 - Elsevier
The linear peptide gramicidin forms prototypical ion channels specific for monovalent
cations and has been extensively used to study the organization, dynamics and function of …

The biophysics of peptide models of ion channels

MS Sansom - Progress in biophysics and molecular biology, 1991 - Elsevier
1. General Introduction 2. An Introduction to Ion Channels (a) General properties of ion
channels (i) Fundamental properties (ii) Planar bilayer electrophysiology (iii) Physiological …

Poly (hydroxyalkanoates): a fifth class of physiologically important organic biopolymers?

HM Müller, D Seebach - Angewandte Chemie International …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Along with polyisoprenoids, polypeptides, polysaccharides, and polynucleotides, Nature
contains a further group of biopolymers, the poly (hydroxyalkanoates). The commonest …