Transmembrane Signalling

Patrick Barton, Christopher A. Hunter, Timothy J. Potter, Simon J. Webb, Nicholas H. Williams

Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2002 · 71 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

Talking through walls: A synthetic system has been developed for transducing a signal across a vesicular bilayer membrane. The external messenger (purple) does not cross the membrane itself, but instigates the release of a secondary messenger (red) on the interior of the vesicle.

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