AcrB et al.: Obstinate contaminants in a picogram scale. One more bottleneck in the membrane protein structure pipeline

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 107-111

  Psakis, Georgios ^a,b   Polaczek, Julia ^a   Essen, Lars Oliver ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AcrB; Heterologous expression; Membrane protein contaminants; Picogram crystallization; Structural genomics; Succinate dehydrogenase

Indexed keywords

CARBON STARVATION PROTEIN A; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NICKEL; PROTEIN ACRB; SODIUM; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEXOSE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PIPELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; UPREGULATION;

ARTIFACTS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DETERGENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; SULFATES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI 26695;

EID: 60649117715     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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