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C. Lohr, A.L. Christensen, S. Veshaguri, M. Tutkus, L. Iversen, G. Kemmer, D. Yaffe, T. Zollmann, P. Curran, S. Schuldiner, R. Tampé, T. Günther Pomorski, J. Mindell, and D. Stamou (2014).
Single liposomes used to study the activity of individual transporters.
Biophysical Journal 106(2), Supplement 1: 229a.
doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.11.1339

Membrane transporters regulate multiple physiological processes including the pumping of ions, peptides and other metabolites such as neurotransmitters(1-4). Though transporters are extensively studied, there are currently no techniques available to investigate their function at the single molecule level.