R L Rosenberg1, J E East

  • 1Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599.

Nature
|November 12, 1992
PubMed
まとめ

研究者は,機能的なイオンチャネルを合成し,研究するために細胞のないシステムを開発し,Xenopus卵子を用いた伝統的な方法の限界を克服しました. この新しい方法は,イオンチャネル研究のためにタンパク質発現と脂質環境の正確な制御を可能にします.

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