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SUBMITTER: Perera AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3678404 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Perera Ayomi S AS Wang Hongwang H Shrestha Tej B TB Troyer Deryl L DL Bossmann Stefan H SH
Beilstein journal of nanotechnology 20130425
The mycobacterial porin MspA is one of the most stable channel proteins known to date. MspA forms vesicles at low concentrations in aqueous buffers. Evidence from dynamic light scattering, transmission electron microscopy and zeta-potential measurements by electrophoretic light scattering indicate that MspA behaves like a nanoscale surfactant. The extreme thermostability of MspA allows these investigations to be carried out at temperatures as high as 343 K, at which most other proteins would qui ...[more]