The machinery of membrane protein assembly

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 397-404

  White, Stephen H ^a   Heijne, Gunnar Von ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; CHIMERA; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; METHANOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ARCHAEA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RIBOSOMES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 4143101547     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2004.07.003     Document Type: Review

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