Preparation of 2D crystals of membrane proteins for high-resolution electron crystallography data collection

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 481, Issue C, 2010, Pages 25-43

  Abeyrathne, Priyanka D ^a   Chami, Mohamed ^a   Pantelic, Radosav S ^a   Goldie, Kenneth N ^a   Stahlberg, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

BOOK; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 77957245653     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(10)81001-8     Document Type: Chapter

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