The changing landscape of membrane protein structural biology through developments in electron microscopy

Molecular Membrane Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 12-22

  Rawson, Shaun ^a   Davies, Simon ^a   Lippiat, Jonathan D ^a   Muench, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; membrane protein; protein structure

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ANIMALS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 85006251498     PISSN: 09687688     EISSN: 14645203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687688.2016.1221533     Document Type: Review

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