How proteins produce cellular membrane curvature

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9-19

  Zimmerberg, Joshua ^a   Kozlov, Michael M ^b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; LIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SHAPE; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

EID: 33644846421     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1784     Document Type: Review

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