3.5 Billion Years of Mechanosensory Transduction: Structure and Function of Mechanosensitive Channels in Prokaryotes

Current Topics in Membranes

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 25-57

  Martinac, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 34047118100     PISSN: 10635823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1063-5823(06)58002-0     Document Type: Review

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