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A mighty stream of membrane proteins

A symposium in June 2018 sponsored by the Center on Membrane Protein Production and Analysis, a unit of the New York Structural Biology Center, focused on the structures of proteins residing in biological membranes. Explicit emphasis was placed on currently developing technologies aimed at determining such structures and at understanding their dynamics, mechanisms and complex interactions.

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Miller, C. A mighty stream of membrane proteins. Nat Struct Mol Biol 25, 751–753 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-018-0121-x

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