Crystallizing membrane proteins for structure determination: Use of lipidic mesophases

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-51

  Caffrey, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Crystallization mechanism; Cubic phase; Macromolecular crystallography; Robot; Structure function; X ray methods

Indexed keywords

DETERGENT; GRAMICIDIN; LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SURFACTANT;

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; LAMELLAR BODY; LIPID BILAYER; MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SCREENING TEST; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 66049128793     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.050708.133655     Document Type: Review

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