Structure of a designed protein cage that self-assembles into a highly porous cube

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1065-1071

  Lai, Yen Ting ^a   Reading, Eamonn ^b   Hura, Greg L ^c,d   Tsai, Kuang Lei ^e   Laganowsky, Arthur ^b   Asturias, Francisco J ^e   Tainer, John A ^c,e   Robinson, Carol V ^b   Yeates, Todd O ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POROSITY; RADIATION SCATTERING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POROSITY; PROTEINS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84911466782     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2107     Document Type: Article

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