Design, Structure, and Function of a Membrane Transporter (IMAGE)

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Design, Structure, and Function of a Membrane Transporter

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Researchers report the computational design, structure, and function of a transmembrane antiport protein. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 19 2014 issue of Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The paper, by N.H. Joh at University of California, San Francisco in San Francisco, CA, and colleagues was titled, 'De novo design of a transmembrane Zn2+ transporting four-helix bundle.'

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Nathan Joh

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