Identification of functionally important residues/domains in membrane proteins using an evolutionary approach coupled with systematic mutational analysis

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 493, Issue , 2009, Pages 287-297

  Rajagopalan, Lavanya ^a   Pereira, Fred A ^a   Lichtarge, Olivier ^a   Brownell, William E ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Membrane expression; Membrane protein; Phylogenetic; Site directed mutagenesis; Structure function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934443721     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-523-7_17     Document Type: Article

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