Porins: General to specific, native to engineered passive pores

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 485-490

  Schulz, Georg E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0030220261     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(96)80113-8     Document Type: Article

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