Gramicidin a induces lysolecithin to form bilayers
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Bioscience Reports
- Vol. 3 (2) , 127-133
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01121943
Abstract
Heat-induced association of Gramicidin A with lyso-lecithin micelles results in the formation of lipid bilayer structures. The capacity of the Gramicidin A peptide to transform the lysolecithin lipid structure from micelle to bilayer is considered in terms of molecular packing mechanisms and relevance to membrane processes in general. The resulting lipid-bilayer-packaged channel system has particular usefulness in characterizing channel structure and mechanism.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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