title: Membrane-protein engineering.
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).
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Immunology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. pawh@fafner.mb.ks.se
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mingarro
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: von Heijne
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Whitley
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001709:Biotechnology; D003545:Cysteine / Q000737:chemistry; D015195:Drug Design; D006801:Humans; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D015202:Protein Engineering; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D008565:Membrane Proteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D003545:Cysteine