Surface structures of native bacteriorhodopsin depend on the molecular packing arrangement in the membrane

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1903-1909

  Müller, Daniel J ^a   Sass, Hans Jürgen ^b   Müller, Shirley A ^a   Büldt, Georg ^b   Engel, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Bacteriorhodopsin; Purple membranes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0040298977     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2441     Document Type: Article

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