Determination of Membrane Protein Molecular Weights and Association Equilibrium Constants Using Sedimentation Equilibrium and Sedimentation Velocity

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 84, Issue , 2008, Pages 181-211

  Burgess, Nancy K ^a   Stanley, Ann Marie ^a   Fleming, Karen G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPASE A; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN F; PHOSPHOLIPASE A1; PORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOSPHOLIPASES A1; PORINS; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 35448984846     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(07)84007-6     Document Type: Review

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