Spontaneous Transmembrane Pore Formation by Short-chain Synthetic Peptide
J. Koneru, D. D. Prakashchand, N. Dube, P. Ghosh, J. Mondal
This paper investigates how a short synthetic β-peptide forms transmembrane pores in lipid bilayers through molecular dynamics simulations, showing sequence-dependent pore formation and membrane disruption.
bioRxiv · Feb 12, 2021Biophysics