Monoolein lipid phases as incorporation and enrichment materials for membrane protein crystallization

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Wallace, Ellen ^a   Dranow, David ^a   Laible, Philip D ^b   Christensen, Jeff ^a   Nollert, Peter ^a  

^a Emerald BioStructures   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOPHILE; GLYCEROL OLEATE; LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; WATER; ACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SURFACE PROPERTY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; TIME;

RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GLYCERIDES; LIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052338634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024488     Document Type: Article

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