Crystallizing membrane proteins using lipidic mesophases

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 706-731

  Cherezov, Vadim ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BTUB PROTEIN, E COLI; CARRIER PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OPCA PROTEIN, NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA-2; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED;

EID: 67649392795     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2009.31     Document Type: Article

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