The progress of membrane protein structure determination.
The rate of membrane protein (MP) structure determination has been examined for the 18-year period following the publication of the first high-resolution crystal structure. The growth is solidly exponential, but lags behind the rate for soluble proteins during the equivalent time period.
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Stephen H
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Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Medical Sciences I, D-346, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-4560, USA. blanco@helium.biomol.uci.edu
D000818:Animals; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray / Q000639:trends*; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*
D008565:Membrane Proteins