Overcoming barriers to membrane protein structure determination

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 335-340

  Bill, Roslyn M ^a   Henderson, Peter J F ^b   Iwata, So ^c   Kunji, Edmund R S ^d   Michel, Hartmut ^e   Neutze, Richard ^f   Newstead, Simon ^g   Poolman, Bert ^h   Tate, Christopher G ⁱ   Vogel, Horst ^j  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

ⁱ MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^j EPFL   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN STRUCTURES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEW APPROACHES; PROTEIN DATA BANK; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEOMES; STRUCTURAL DATABASE; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; UNDER-REPRESENTED;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

PROTEINS;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEOME; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

CRYSTALLIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATA BANK; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 79953900818     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.1833     Document Type: Review

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