The use of amphipathic polymers for cryo electron microscopy of NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I)

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 227, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 229-235

  Flötenmeyer, Matthias ^a,b   Weiss, Hanns ^c   Tribet, Christophe ^d   Popot, Jean Luc ^e   Leonard, Kevin ^a,f  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Institut für Biochemie   (Germany)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^e INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^f WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Amphipols; Cryo electron microscopy; Membrane proteins

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CARBON FILMS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRONS; HYDRATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SOAPS (DETERGENTS);

3D RECONSTRUCTION; AMPHIPATHIC; AMPHIPOL; CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OXIDO-REDUCTASES; SINGLE PARTICLE RECONSTRUCTION; STRUCTURE DETERMINATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) STRUCTURES; UBIQUINONE;

PROTEINS;

AMPHOPHILE; CARBON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYMER; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE);

ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZING; HYDRATION; MACROMOLECULE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 34548329761     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2007.01805.x     Document Type: Article

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