Methods paper-

Methods Mol Biol. 2008;432:65-81.

Preparation of Respiratory Chain Complexes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae Wild-Type and Mutant Mitochondria : Activity Measurement and Subunit Composition Analysis.

Lemaire C, Dujardin G.

CNRS, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Gif sur Yvette, France.

Highest resolution bc1 structure; cyt c bound; asymmetric dimer

J Biol Chem. 2008 Apr 4 [Epub ahead of print]

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