Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are an emerging class of antibiotics for controlling health effects of antibiotic-resistant microbial strains. Protegrin-1 (PG-1) is a model antibiotic among beta-sheet AMPs. Antibiotic activity of AMPs involves cell membrane damage, yet their membrane interactions, their 3D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(45), 18442-18446 (2012-10-25)
Interaction between integral membrane proteins and the lipid-bilayer component of biological membranes is expected to mutually influence the proteins and the membrane. We present quantitative evidence of a manifestation of the lipid-protein interactions in liposomal membranes, reconstituted with actively pumping
Sorting, transport, and autophagic degradation of proteins in endosomes and lysosomes, as well as the division of these organelles, depend on scission of membrane-bound tubulo-vesicular carriers. How scission occurs is poorly understood, but family proteins bind these membranes. Here, we
The effect of cholesterol (CHOL) on the material properties of supported lipid bilayers composed of lipid mixtures that mimic the composition of lipid microdomains was studied by force-volume (FV) imaging under near-physiological conditions. These studies were carried out with lipid
The journal of physical chemistry. B, 113(4), 1107-1119 (2009-01-08)
Some membrane-active peptides undergo drastic changes of conformation and/or orientation on water-lipid interfaces. Among the most notable examples is penetratin (pAntp), a short cell-penetrating peptide. To delineate the driving forces behind pAntp-membrane interactions, we used, in this series of two
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