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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES
Volume 1818, Issue 7, Pages 1656-1662Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.03.021
Keywords
Antimicrobial peptide; Ion channel; Tethered bilayer lipid membrane; Nucleation and growth
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- Regione Toscana (Nabla project)
- Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca
- Fondazione Cariparo
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The lipopeptaibol trichogin GA IV (TCG) can be incorporated in the lipid bilayer moiety of a mercury-supported tethered bilayer lipid membrane (tBLM) at a non-physiological transmembrane potential of about -240 mV, negative on the trans side of the bilayer. Once incorporated in the tBLM, TCG is stable over the range of physiological transmembrane potentials and permeabilizes the membrane at transmembrane potentials negative of -80 divided by-90 mV. The chronocoulometric behavior is consistent with a kinetics of nucleation and growth of bundles of TCG building blocks with ion-channel properties. The TCG building blocks also permeabilize the lipid bilayer, albeit at more negative transmembrane potentials, and can be tentatively regarded as dimers of aligned TCG helical monomers. The cyclic voltammograms of tBLMs incorporating TCG point to a voltage-gated behavior of the TCG channel, similar to that exhibited by the peptaibol alamethicin. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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