A rational route to probing membrane proteins.docVIP

Minireview A rational route to probing membrane proteins Amy E Keating Address: MIT Department of Biology, Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Email: keating@ Published: 31 May 2007 Genome Biology 2007, 8:214 (doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-5-214) The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2007/8/5/214 ? 2007 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract A recent report describes the design of short peptides that bind specifically to transmembrane regions of integrins, providing an exciting tool for probing the biology of membrane proteins. Membrane p