Deletion variants of Neurospora mitochondrial porin: Electrophysiological and spectroscopic analysis

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3155-3164

  Runke, Greg ^a   Maier, Elke ^b   Summers, William A T ^a   Bay, Denice C ^a   Benz, Roland ^b   Court, Deborah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERGENT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PORIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; MEMBRANE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; POLARIMETRY; POROSITY; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; SOLUBILIZATION; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; WILD TYPE;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 33646155114     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.072520     Document Type: Article

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