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SUBMITTER: Allolio C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6255155 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Allolio Christoph C Magarkar Aniket A Jurkiewicz Piotr P Baxová Katarína K Javanainen Matti M Mason Philip E PE Šachl Radek R Cebecauer Marek M Hof Martin M Horinek Dominik D Heinz Veronika V Rachel Reinhard R Ziegler Christine M CM Schröfel Adam A Jungwirth Pavel P
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20181105 47
Arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides do not enter cells by directly passing through a lipid membrane; they instead passively enter vesicles and live cells by inducing membrane multilamellarity and fusion. The molecular picture of this penetration mode, which differs qualitatively from the previously proposed direct mechanism, is provided by molecular dynamics simulations. The kinetics of vesicle agglomeration and fusion by an iconic cell-penetrating peptide-nonaarginine-are documented via rea ...[more]