Strategy for membrane protein crystallization exemplified with OmpA and OmpX

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 167-172

  Pautsch, Alex ^a   Vogt, Joachim ^a   Model, Kirstin ^a   Siebold, Christian ^a   Schulz, Georg E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

(re)naturation; Crystallization; Inclusion bodies; Integral membrane proteins; OmpA; OmpX

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN X; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RENATURATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYDROLASES; INCLUSION BODIES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033081475     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19990201)34:2<167::AID-PROT2>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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