Thermal denaturation of human cystatin C and two of its variants; comparison to chicken cystatin

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 378, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1199-1203

  Žerovnik, Eva ^a   Cimerman, Nina ^b   Kos, Janko ^a,b   Turk, Vito ^a   Lohner, Karl ^c  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b Research and Development Division   (Slovenia)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chicken cystatin; Human cystatin C; Stefins; Thermal stability; W106S and leu 9 cystatin C variants

Indexed keywords

CYSTATIN; CYSTATIN C; MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSTABILITY;

ANIMALS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CHICKENS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYSTATINS; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; HEAT; HUMANS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0030711080     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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