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The Protein Fusion Strategy Facilitates the Structure Determination of Small Membrane Proteins by Cryo-EM

Despite the resolution revolution of cryo-EM, structures of small membrane proteins (<80 kDa) are still understudied. These proteins are notoriously reluctant to structure determination by single-particle cryo-EM. Protein fusion might represent a plausible strategy to overcome such difficulties.

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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00319