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Structure, Substrate Recognition, and Mechanism of the Na+-Hydantoin Membrane Transport Protein, Mhp1

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  1. Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of BioMedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Scott M. Jackson

  2. Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Institute of Membrane and Systems Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Ekaterina Ivanova, Antonio N. Calabrese, Anna Polyakova, David J. Sharples, Katie J. Simmons, Irshad Ahmad, Alison E. Ashcroft, Arwen Pearson, Stephen A. Baldwin & Peter J. F. Henderson

  3. Department of Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Tatsuro Shimamura & So Iwata

  4. Membrane Protein Laboratory, Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK

    Tatsuro Shimamura, Florian Brueckner, Simone Weyand, So Iwata & Alexander D. Cameron

  5. Formycon AG, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany

    Florian Brueckner

  6. Biomedical Sciences, University of Roehampton, Whitelands College, London, UK

    Michelle Sahai & Homa Majd

  7. Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK

    Edmund Kunji

  8. Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

    Shun’ichi Suzuki

  9. Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Maria Kokkinidou & Arwen Pearson

  10. Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Oliver Beckstein

  11. School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Alexander D. Cameron

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Jackson, S.M. et al. (2019). Structure, Substrate Recognition, and Mechanism of the Na+-Hydantoin Membrane Transport Protein, Mhp1. In: Roberts, G., Watts, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9_10091-1

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