Membrane protein folding and stability: Physical principles

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 28, Issue , 1999, Pages 319-365

  White, Stephen H ^a   Wimley, William C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Bilayer structure; Lipid protein interactions; Membrane active peptides; Peptide bilayer interactions; Soluble protein folding; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; GLYCOPHORIN A; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

ANIMALS; HYDROGEN BONDING; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032987478     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.28.1.319     Document Type: Article

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