Strategies for the cloning and expression of membrane proteins

Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology

Volumn 76, Issue C, 2009, Pages 43-86

  Koth, Christopher M M ^a   Payandeh, Jian ^b  

^a GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; REVIEW;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

EID: 78049430941     PISSN: 18761623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1876-1623(09)76002-4     Document Type: Article

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