Membrane proteins: Structure, function, assembly
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Structure and Assembly of β-Barrel Membrane Proteins
Integral membrane proteins fall into two major structural classes; they consist of individual or bundled TM -helices, or they form monomeric, dimeric, or trimeric TM -barrels. These folds are dictated by the necessity to form oriented hydrogenbonded secondary structures in the highly ordered apolar environment of the lipid bilayer. No other structural motif has yet been confirmed for membrane p...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: FEBS Letters
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0014-5793
DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(89)80592-7