Biochemical and biophysical characterization of in vitro folded outer membrane porin PorA of Neisseria meningitidis

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1464, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 284-298

  Jansen, Carmen ^a   Wiese, Andre ^b   Reubsaet, Lieke ^a   Dekker, Niek ^c   De Cock, Hans ^a   Seydel, Ulrich ^b   Tommassen, Jan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^c Centre for Biomembranes and Lipid Enzymology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Black lipid membrane; Membrane protein; Neisseria meningitidis; PorA; Porin; RmpM

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; LIPID MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; INCLUSION BODIES; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; LIPOSOMES; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PLASMIDS; PORINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; TRYPSIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0034607359     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2736(00)00155-3     Document Type: Article

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