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Ben de Kruijff, J. Antoinette Killian, Dragomir N. Ganchev, Hilde A. Rinia, Emma Sparr

Striated domains: self-organizing ordered assemblies of transmembrane ?-helical peptides and lipids in bilayers

Keywords: AFM, bacteriorhodopsin, force spectroscopy, lipid-protein interactions, phase separation, self assembly

This review summarizes the knowledge on striated domains, which are ordered assemblies of transmembrane peptides and lipids under gel-state conditions. The structure, mechanism of function and utility of this system as a model for domain formation is described, resulting in a molecular description of the domains and a discussion on the relevance of these insights for the function/formation and structure of similar domains in biological membranes.

Biological Chemistry, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 1431-6730
Volume: 387, 03/2006
Pages: 235 - 241

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