title: Introduction to theme "membrane protein folding and insertion".
abstract: This volume of the Annual Review of Biochemistry contains three reviews on current developments in membrane protein research: Grigoryan et al. "Transmembrane Communication: General Principles and Lessons from the Structure and Function of the M2 Proton Channel, K⁺ Channels, and Integrin Receptors," Hagan et al. "β-Barrel Membrane Protein Assembly by the Bam Complex," and Dalbey et al. "Assembly of Bacterial Inner Membrane Proteins." In this short introduction, I discuss these reviews in the larger context of where the field of membrane protein biochemistry is heading.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomembrane Research, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm Unviersity, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden. gunnar@dbb.su.se
authors.forename: Gunnar
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: von Heijne
mesh_terms: D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017510:Protein Folding
chemical_list: D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D008565:Membrane Proteins