Successful recovery of the normal electrophysiological properties of PorB (Class 3) porin from neisseria meningitidis after expression in Escherichia coli and renaturation

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1370, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 289-298

  Song, Jiming ^a   Minetti, Conceição A S A ^b   Blake, M S ^b   Colombini, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b North American Vaccine Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

(Neisseria); Electrophysiological property; Outer membrane; Porin; Recombinant; Voltage gating

Indexed keywords

PORIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VOLTAGE GATED CHANNEL FORMING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PORINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0032513175     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2736(97)00279-4     Document Type: Article

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