Chloride ion efflux from liposomes is controlled by sidechains in a channel-forming heptapeptide
- 3 January 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 6,p. 603-605
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b517713h
Abstract
A suite of amphiphilic heptapeptides incorporating a glutamic acid derivative on the C-terminal side of a (Gly)3Pro sequence gives dramatically lower chloride ion release from liposomes when present in free carboxyl form rather than as an ester or amide.Keywords
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