An engineered dimeric protein pore that spans adjacent lipid bilayers

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mantri, Shiksha ^a   Tanuj Sapra, K ^a   Cheley, Stephen ^a,b   Sharp, Thomas H ^b   Bayley, Hagan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HEMOLYSIN; DIMER;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOENGINEERING; FLUID; LIPID; PROTEIN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS STEREOTHERMOPHILUS; COVALENT BOND; DISULFIDE BOND; GAP JUNCTION; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA BINDING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLODEXTRINS; DIMERIZATION; DNA PRIMERS; LIPID BILAYERS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS;

EID: 84877733822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2726     Document Type: Article

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