Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.133, No.37, 14507-14509, 2011
Imaging Multiple Conductance States in an Alamethicin Pore
Alamethicin is the archetypal antimicrobial pore-forming peptide. Although the peptide has long been known to form pores of characteristic conductances in lipid membranes, the precise nature of these pores is not known. Simultaneous calcium-flux imaging and single-channel recording in a droplet interface bilayer allowed us to directly attribute multiple conductance states to a single point diffusing in the bilayer.