Protein conformational changes in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 287, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 145-161

  Subramaniam, Sriram ^a   Lindahl, Martin ^a   Bullough, Per ^a   Faruqi, A R ^a   Tittor, Jörg ^b   Oesterhelt, Dieter ^b   Brown, Leonid ^c   Lanyi, Janos ^c   Henderson, Richard ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformational change; Electron crystallography; Proton pump; Seven helix membrane protein; Trapped intermediates

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; ETHANE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0033582945     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2589     Document Type: Article

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