Structure and Function of Copper Uptake Transporters

Current Topics in Membranes

Volumn 69, Issue , 2012, Pages 97-112

  Pope, Christopher R ^a   Flores, Adrian G ^a   Kaplan, Jack H ^b   Unger, Vinzenz M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Copper transport; CTR proteins; Electron crystallography; EXAFS spectroscopy; Mutagenesis; Structure function relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867167212     PISSN: 10635823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394390-3.00004-5     Document Type: Chapter

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