Applications
Making a Tethered Bilayer
1. Starter kit to study tethered membranes.
2. To make a tethered membrane bilayer with Starter Kit.
Membrane Biophysics
3. Micelles or bilayers?
4. Micelles to bilayers.
5. Determine partition coefficients.
Ion Channels
6. Peptide ion channels.
7. Change percentage of tethered lipids to accommodate Ion Channels
8. Many approaches to incorporating Ion Channels into tethered membrane
9. Kinetics of insertion, formation or switching of channels.
10. Aggregation state - Dimers, tetramers ...?
11. Species dependent ion conduction
12. Voltage dependence of channels.
Screening
13. Screen for ion channel blockers.
14. Grow cells and measure activity through local ion flux
Measurement
15. Ion channel switch demonstrator
16. Ion channel switch detector
17. Ion selective electrode
