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Interactions of Peptides with Phospholipid Vesicles: Fusion, Leakage and Flip-Flop

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Trafficking of Intracellular Membranes:

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The understanding of the interrelationships among dynamics, structure, and function of membrane-interacting peptide segments has been intensely studied during the last decade.

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  1. The Seagram Center for Soil and Water Sciences Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, 76100, Israel

    Shlomo Nir, Elias Fattal, Roberta A. Parente, Jose L. Nieva, Jan Wilschut & Francis C. Szoka Jr.

  2. School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0446, USA

    Elias Fattal, Roberta A. Parente & Francis C. Szoka Jr.

  3. Department of Physiological Chemistry, University of Groningen, Bloemsingel 10 9712, KZ Groningen, The Netherlands

    Jose L. Nieva & Jan Wilschut

  4. Universite Paris-Sud Faculte de Pharmacie, Laboratoire de Phyhsico-Chimie, Pharmacotechnie, Biopharmacie, URA, CNRS 1218, 92296, Chatenay-Malabry, Cedex, France

    Elias Fattal

  5. Ortho Diagnostics, Route 202, Raritan, N.J., 08869, USA

    Roberta A. Parente

  6. Department of Biochemistry, University of the Basque Country, P.O. Box 644, 48080, Bilbao, Spain

    Jose L. Nieva

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  2. Department of Microbiology, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, 94115, USA

    Nejat Düzgüneş

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Nir, S., Fattal, E., Parente, R.A., Nieva, J.L., Wilschut, J., Szoka, F.C. (1995). Interactions of Peptides with Phospholipid Vesicles: Fusion, Leakage and Flip-Flop. In: De Lima, M.C.P., Düzgüneş, N., Hoekstra, D. (eds) Trafficking of Intracellular Membranes:. NATO ASI Series, vol 91. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79547-3_6

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