A photoswitchable helical peptide with light-controllable interface/transmembrane topology in lipidic membranes

Summary: The spontaneous insertion of helical transmembrane (TM) polypeptides into lipid bilayers is driven by three sequential equilibria: solution-to-membrane interface (MI) partition, unstructured-to-helical folding, and MI-to-TM helix insertion. A bottleneck for understanding these three steps i...

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Main Authors: Mónica Gutiérrez-Salazar, Eduardo Santamaría-Aranda, Louise Schaar, Jesús Salgado, Diego Sampedro, Victor A. Lorenz-Fonfria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-07-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221007392