Getting greasy: How transmembrane polypeptide segments integrate into the lipid bilayer

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 249-253

  Von Heijne, Gunnar ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIPID BILAYER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030968672     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.3351702.x     Document Type: Review

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