Gramicidin increases lipid flip-flop in symmetric and asymmetric lipid vesicles

\Unlike most transmembrane proteins, phospholipids can migrate from one leaflet of the membrane to the other. Because this spontaneous lipid translocation (flip-flop) tends to be very slow, cells facilitate the process with enzymes that catalyze the transmembrane movement and thereby regulate the transbilayer lipid distribution. Non-enzymatic membrane-spanning proteins with unrelated primary functions have also been found to accelerate lipid flip-flop in a non-specific manner and by various hypothesized mechanisms.

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