Lipid monolayers: Why use half a membrane to characterize protein-membrane interactions?

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 438-443

  Brockman, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; WATER;

AIR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIPID MONOLAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0033179620     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(99)80061-X     Document Type: Article

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