The versatile β-barrel membrane protein

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 404-411

  Wimley, William C ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CHLOROPLAST; DATA BASE; GENETIC CODE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0041428149     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(03)00099-X     Document Type: Review

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