Highlights from recently determined structures of membrane proteins: a focus on channels and transporters.

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Published in Curr Opin Struct Biol on April 01, 2012

Authors

Giuliano Sciara1, Filippo Mancia

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

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