Incorporation of hydrophobic helix-bundle peptides into lipid bilayer membranes facilitated by a peptide-umbrella structure

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Hiroki Ueda, Shunsaku Kimura, Hiroki Ueda and Yukio Imanishi


Abstract

Hydrophobic helical peptides, which are covered by hydrophilic peptides, are transferred into a phospholipid bilayer to form helix-bundle structures as a consequence of their peptide-umbrella structure.


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