Electrochemical identificaton of intermediate forms of urea denaturation of horse heart cytochrome c

Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 107-113

  Zhu, Yimin ^a,b   Dong, Shaojun ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b Department of Material Science   (China)

Author keywords

Cytochrome c; Denaturation; Electrochemistry; Intermediate forms; Urea

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; UREA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HEART; HORSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DENATURATION; TECHNIQUE;

EQUUS CABALLUS;

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; UREA;

CYTOCHROME; DENATURATION; INTERMEDIATE CYTOCHROME FORMS;

PROTEINS;

EID: 0030251074     PISSN: 03024598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0302-4598(96)05080-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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