Highly Permeable and Selective Pore-Spanning Biomimetic Membrane Embedded with Aquaporin Z
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Highly permeable polymeric membranes based on the incorporation of the functional water channel protein Aquaporin Z.
The permeability and solute transport characteristics of amphiphilic triblock-polymer vesicles containing the bacterial water-channel protein Aquaporin Z (AqpZ) were investigated. The vesicles were made of a block copolymer with symmetric poly-(2-methyloxazoline)-poly-(dimethylsiloxane)-poly-(2-methyloxazoline) (PMOXA(15)-PDMS(110)-PMOXA(15)) repeat units. Light-scattering measurements on pure ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Small
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1613-6810
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201201148