Melittin Pores (IMAGE)

Rice University

Melittin Pores

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This artist's visualization shows the structure of stable pores that are created by melittin peptides (orange) in a 3-D crystalline membrane. The structure shown here, which was predicted by Rice physicist Huey Huang in 2000, was confirmed in an experimental paper this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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H. Huang/Rice University

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