Conical tomography of freeze-fracture replicas: A method for the study of integral membrane proteins inserted in phospholipid bilayers

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-98

  Lanzavecchia, S ^a   Cantele, F ^a   Bellon, P L ^a   Zampighi, L ^b   Kreman, M ^b   Wright, E ^b   Zampighi, G A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Conical geometry; Electron tomography; Membrane proteins; Metal replicas

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; LIPOSOME; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AQUAPORINS; EYE PROTEINS; FREEZE FRACTURING; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11144223254     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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