...–protein interaction lung surfactant membrane permeability membrane perturbation membrane pore membrane protein Pulmonary surfactant, a membrane-based lipid–protein complex, is strictly required for breathing in pulmonated organisms. The presence of a surfactant layer at the respiratory...

... tetrazolium chloride, 4´,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole and FITC. This technique enabled us to identify, in the same sample, both living and total cells, as well as bacteria with altered membrane permeability. These results reveal that temporin L increases the permeability of the bacterial inner membrane...