FEBS Letters
Volume 504, Issue 3 , Pages 179-186 , 31 August 2001

Molecular mechanism for the crystallization of bacteriorhodopsin in lipidic cubic phases

Edited by Andreas Engel and Giorgio Semenza

  • Peter Nollert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus, San Francisco, CA 94134-0448, USA
    • Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstr. 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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  • Hong Qiu

      Affiliations

    • Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemistry, Ohio State University, 100 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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  • Martin Caffrey

      Affiliations

    • Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemistry, Ohio State University, 100 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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  • Jurg P Rosenbusch

      Affiliations

    • Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstr. 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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  • Ehud M Landau

      Affiliations

    • Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstr. 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
    • Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Membrane Protein Laboratory, and Sealy Center for Structural Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX 77555-0641, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, 301 University Blvd., University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-0437, USA. Fax: (1)-409-772 1301

Received 11 July 2001 ,Accepted 23 July 2001.

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FEBS Letters
Volume 504, Issue 3 , Pages 179-186 , 31 August 2001