'Feeling the pressure': Structural insights into a gated mechanosensitive channel

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 448-454

  Spencer, Robert H ^a   Chang, Geoffrey ^a   Rees, Douglas C ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

CHANNEL GATING; CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0033179339     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(99)80063-3     Document Type: Article

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