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SUBMITTER: Stoddart D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3932856 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stoddart David D Ayub Mariam M Höfler Lajos L Raychaudhuri Pinky P Klingelhoefer Jochen W JW Maglia Giovanni G Heron Andrew A Bayley Hagan H
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140127 7
Membrane proteins are generally divided into two classes. Integral proteins span the lipid bilayer, and peripheral proteins are located at the membrane surface. Here, we provide evidence for membrane proteins of a third class that stabilize lipid pores, most probably as toroidal structures. We examined mutants of the staphylococcal α-hemolysin pore so severely truncated that the protein cannot span a bilayer. Nonetheless, the doughnut-like structures elicited well-defined transmembrane ionic cur ...[more]