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Determination of membrane protein molecular weights and association equilibrium constants using sedimentation

Nancy K Burgess1, Ann Marie Stanley, Karen G Fleming

  • 1T. C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.

Methods in Cell Biology
|October 30, 2007
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Keywords:
Membrane proteinsUltracentrifugationProtein interactionsCellular biochemistry

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