Purification and spectroscopic characterization of a recombinant chloroplastic hemoglobin from the green unicellular alga Chlamydomonas eugametos

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 242, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 779-787

  Couture, Manon ^a   Guertin, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; Green alga; Hemoglobin; Oxygen binding protein

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOOXIDATION; CHLOROPLAST; DRUG STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN ALGA; OXYGEN AFFINITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS EUGAMETOS; CHLOROPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; MYXOZOA; NOSTOC COMMUNE; NOSTOC SP.; OXY; PARAMECIUM; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0030432481     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0779r.x     Document Type: Article

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