Three-dimensional crystallization of membrane proteins

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 429-477

  Kuhlbrandt W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERGENT; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DETERGENTS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0024117785     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: 14698994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583500004625     Document Type: Article

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