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Saori Nakata
Researcher at McMaster University
Publications - 1
Citations - 442
Saori Nakata is an academic researcher from McMaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vesicle & Phosphatidic acid. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 420 citations.
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Relationship of membrane curvature to the formation of pores by magainin 2.
Katsumi Matsuzaki,Ken’ichi Sugishita,Noriko Ishibe,Mayu Ueha,Saori Nakata,Koichiro Miyajima,Richard M. Epand +6 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the peptide imposes positive curvature strain, facilitating the formation of a torus-type pore, and that the presence of negative curvature-inducing lipids inhibits pore formation.