Hydrodynamic examination of the dimeric cytoplasmic domain of the human erythrocyte anion transporter, band 3

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1611-1615

  Cölfen, Helmut ^a,c   Harding, Stephen E ^a   Boulter, Jonathan M ^b,d   Watts, Anthony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER;

ANION TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0029763318     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79364-5     Document Type: Article

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