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Expression, Detergent Solubilization, and Purification of a Membrane Transporter, the MexB Multidrug Resistance Protein
Published on: December 3, 2010
NMR assignment of the dimeric S. aureus small multidrug-resistance pump in LPPG micelles
Sébastien F Poget1, Suzanne T Krueger-Koplin, Ray D Krueger-Koplin
1Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York 10469, USA.
Journal of Biomolecular NMR
|February 4, 2006
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