Probing the structure and mobility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin by circular dichroism and dynamic fluorescence anisotropy

Protein Science

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2248-2254

  Mei, G ^a   Gilardi, G ^b   Venanzi, M ^a   Rosato, N ^a   Canters, G W ^c   Finazzi Agro A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

entatic state; fluorescence lifetime distribution; site directed mutagenesis; solvent relaxation; tryptophan

Indexed keywords

METALLOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0029833191     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560051111     Document Type: Article

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