A green fluorescent protein screen for identification of well‐expressed membrane proteins from a cohort of extremophilic organisms

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A green fluorescent protein screen for identification of well-expressed membrane proteins from a cohort of extremophilic organisms

Justus Hammon^†,
Dinesh V. Palanivelu^†,
Joy Chen,
Chintan Patel,
Daniel L. Minor Jr.^*

Article first published online: 2 DEC 2008

DOI: 10.1002/pro.18

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Protein Science

Volume 18, Issue 1, pages 121–133, January 2009

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Hammon, J., Palanivelu, D. V., Chen, J., Patel, C. and Minor, D. L. (2009), A green fluorescent protein screen for identification of well-expressed membrane proteins from a cohort of extremophilic organisms. Protein Science, 18: 121–133. doi: 10.1002/pro.18

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Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158-2330

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Justus Hammon and Dinesh V. Palanivelu contributed equally to this work.

Email: Daniel L. Minor Jr. (daniel.minor@ucsf.edu)

^*Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158-2330

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Issue published online: 16 DEC 2008
Article first published online: 2 DEC 2008
Accepted manuscript online: 2 DEC 2008 12:00AM EST
Manuscript Accepted: 15 OCT 2008
Manuscript Revised: 10 OCT 2008
Manuscript Received: 3 SEP 2008

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