Journal
PROTEIN AND PEPTIDE LETTERS
Volume 16, Issue 7, Pages 726-735Publisher
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/092986609788681698
Keywords
Fluorescence; FRET; Lipid demixing; Lipid-peptide interaction; Membrane fusion
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- FCT, Portugal [POCI/SAU-FCF/57114/2004]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [POCI/SAU-FCF/57114/2004] Funding Source: FCT
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Interaction of fusogenic or membrane-perturbing peptides with lipid bilayers often involves drastic rearrangements of the membrane structure, with redistribution of lipids, inducement of bilayer curvature, or formation of nonbilayer or multibilayer structures. Fluorescence (or Forster) Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) is a photophysical technique which has an acute sensitivity to distances in the nanometer range, and, as such, is particularly suited to probe alterations in membrane organization in this length scale. This article reviews methods and selected applications of FRET in this field, from the now classic (fusion induced) lipid-mixing assay to examples where kinetic modeling of FRET enables the recovery of topological information.
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