A monodisperse transmembrane α-helical peptide barrel.

The fabrication of monodisperse transmembrane barrels formed from short synthetic peptides has not been demonstrated previously. This is in part because of the complexity of the interactions between peptides and lipids within the hydrophobic environment of a membrane. Here we report the formation of...

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Main Authors: Mahendran, K, Niitsu, A, Kong, L, Thomson, A, Sessions, R, Woolfson, D, Bayley, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016