...Ian R. Booth; Tim Rasmussen; Michelle D. Edwards; Susan Black; Akiko Rasmussen; Wendy Bartlett; Samantha Miller Mechanosensitive channels sense and respond to changes in bilayer tension. In many respects, this is a unique property: the changes in membrane tension gate the channel, leading...

... spectroscopy, making use of the ability to introduce tryptophan residues into regions of interest in bacterial membrane proteins. Fluorescence quenching methods have been developed to study lipid binding separately on the two sides of the membrane. Lipid binding to the surface of the mechanosensitive channel...