Structural genomics of bacterial membrane transport proteins
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A structural genomics approach to membrane transport proteins
The hydrophobic bilayer membrane that bounds cells is inherently impermeable to the great majority of hydrophilic solutes required for cell nutrition and to many of the waste products and/or toxins that must be excreted. Accordingly, the membrane contains proteins, the sole function of which is to catalyse the translocation of substrates through the membrane. In all types of cells, from microbe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0108-7673
DOI: 10.1107/s0108767309099516