Expression and Purification of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Structural Studies

Production of Membrane Proteins: Strategies for Expression and Isolation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 297-316

  Casagrande, Fabio ^a   Maier, Klaus ^b   Kiefer, Hans ^c   Opella, Stanley J ^a   Park, Sang Ho ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Membrane Receptor Technologies   (United States)

^c Biberach Universtiy of Applied Science   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binding; Cloning; Expression; G protein coupled receptor; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Refolding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879637115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527634521.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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