Sampling the conformational space of membrane protein surfaces with the AFM

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 172-178

  Scheuring, Simon ^a,b   Müller, Daniel J ^a,b   Stahlberg, Henning ^a,b   Engel, Hans Andreas ^b,c   Engel, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Energy landscape; Loops; Membrane protein; Two dimensional crystal; Turns

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONFORMATION; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0036619802     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-001-0197-8     Document Type: Article

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