High-level expression, functional reconstitution, and quaternary structure of a prokaryotic ClC-type chloride channel

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 713-722

  Maduke, Merritt ^a   Pheasant, Deborah J ^a   Miller, Christopher ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatography; Glutaraldehyde; Liposome; Ultracentrifugation; YadQ

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE CHANNEL; GLUTARALDEHYDE; LIPOSOME;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CROSS LINKING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; CHLORINE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIXATIVES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTARAL; LIPOSOMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RADIOISOTOPES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRITIUM;

EID: 0032692857     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.114.5.713     Document Type: Article

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