Biopolym. Cell. 1989; 5(1):100-102.
http://dx.doi.org/10.7124/bc.00009D
Short Communications
Study of melittin-membrane complex by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy
1Ladokhin A. S., 1Lebedeva N. V., 2Chikishev A. Yu.
  1. A. V. Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR
    Kiev, USSR
  2. M. V. Lomonosov State University
    Moscow, USSR

Abstract

Structural dynamics of tetrameric melittin in solution and of the melittin-phospholipid membrane complex was studied by time-resolved fluorescence spoctroscopy. Significant differences in the spectral dependences of the mean tryptophan fluorescence lifetime of protein in solution and in the complex with liposomes were established.
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