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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2011

The structural biology of β-barrel membrane proteins: a summary of recent reports.

James W Fairman, Nicholas Noinaj, Susan K Buchanan

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 139 papers.

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139citing papers in PubMed
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

139 citing papers in PubMed, 259 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

James W FairmanNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Nicholas Noinaj
Susan K Buchanan
National Institutes of Health · USNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · US

Funding

structural characterization of bacterial secretion channelsZIADK036139 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI BUCHANAN, SUSAN · 2009 to 2025
$19.3M
structural characterization of iron uptake from human transferrinZIADK036143 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI BUCHANAN, SUSAN · 2009 to 2013
$3.1M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA DK036143
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The outer membranes of Gram-negative bacteria, mitochondria, and chloroplasts all contain transmembrane β-barrel proteins. These β-barrel proteins serve essential functions in cargo transport and signaling and are also vital for membrane biogenesis. They have also been adapted to perform a diverse set of important cellular functions including acting as porins, transporters, enzymes, virulence factors and receptors. Recent structures of transmembrane β-barrels include that of a full length autotransporter (EstA), a bacterial heme transporter complex (HasR), a bacterial porin in complex with several ligands (PorB), and the mitochondrial voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) from both mouse and human. These represent only a few of the interesting structures of β-barrel membrane proteins recently elucidated. However, they demonstrate many of the advancements made within the field of transmembrane protein structure in the past few years.

Indexed as

AnimalsBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsCrystallography, X-RayHumansMembrane ProteinsMitochondrial ProteinsProtein Structure, SecondaryBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsMembrane ProteinsMitochondrial Proteins

Identifiers

PMID21719274
PMCPMC3164749
OpenAlexW2014101652

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