Structural origins of redox potentials in fe-s proteins: Electrostatic potentials of crystal structures

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2958-2969

  Swartz, Paul D ^a   Beck, Brian W ^b   Ichiye, Toshiko ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; RUBREDOXIN; SOLVENT; VALINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIUM VINOSUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PASTEURIANUM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DESULFOVIBRIO; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SURFACE CHARGE;

ALLOCHROMATIUM VINOSUM; CHROMATIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PASTEURIANUM; DESULFOVIBRIO;

EID: 0029753015     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79533-4     Document Type: Article

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