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Membrane-protein engineering
I Mingarro1, G von Heijne, P Whitley
1Department of Clinical Immunology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. pawh@fafner.mb.ks.se
Trends in Biotechnology
|November 14, 1997
Abstract:
Membrane proteins perform many of the essential functions required for life. They are often the targets of medicinal drugs and have many potential uses in biotechnological processes. Therefore our ability to understand them and manipulate their functions is both important and necessary to enable protein engineers to create 'designer' membrane proteins (that is, proteins designed to have desired properties).