O. Murillo et al., A TRIS(MACROCYCLE) THAT EXHIBITS H-BOND-INDUCED BLOCKAGE OF THE CATION CHANNEL FUNCTION IN A PHOSPHOLIPID-BILAYER, Chemical communications, (18), 1996, pp. 2147-2148
An indole-terminated tris(macrocyclic) compound, designed to be a chan
nel-former, is an effective carrier in bulk membranes but fails to fun
ction in a lipid bilayer owing to hydrogen bond formation which blocks
the channel.