The 3.7 Å projection map of the glycerol facilitator GlpF: A variant of the aquaporin tetramer

EMBO Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 183-189

  Braun, Thomas ^a   Philippsen, Ansgar ^a   Wirtz, Sabine ^a   Borgnia, Mario J ^b   Agre, Peter ^b   Kühlbrandt, Werner ^c   Engel, Andreas ^a   Stahlberg, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLPF PROTEIN, E COLI; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AQUAPORINS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING;

EID: 0034252646     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvd022     Document Type: Article

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