Coupling electron cryomicroscopy and X-ray crystallography to understand secondary active transport

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 448-455

  Tsai, Ching Ju ^a   Ziegler, Christine ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 77955984465     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2010.06.005     Document Type: Review

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