The Major Outer Membrane Protein of Chlamydia psittaci Functions as a Porin-Like Ion Channel
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The major outer membrane protein of Chlamydia psittaci functions as a porin-like ion channel.
The major outer membrane protein (MOMP) of Chlamydia species shares several biochemical properties with classical porin proteins. Secondary structure analysis by circular dichroism now reveals that MOMP purified from Chlamydia psittaci has a predominantly beta-sheet content (62%), which is also typical of bacterial porins. Can MOMP form functional ion channels? To directly test the "porin chann...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection and Immunity
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0019-9567,1098-5522
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.11.5202-5207.1998