Protein oligomerization in the bacterial outer membrane (Review)

Molecular Membrane Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 136-145

  Meng, Guoyu ^a   Fronzes, Rémi ^a   Chandran, Vidya ^a   Remaut, Han ^a,b   Waksman, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

barrel; Bacterial outer membrane; Membrane protein; Oligomerization; Structural biology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALLOSTERISM; ALPHA HELIX; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BETA SHEET; CHANNEL GATING; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 61349159270     PISSN: 09687688     EISSN: 14645203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687680802712422     Document Type: Review

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