Evidence for a cysteine-histidine thioether bridge in functional units of molluscan haemocyanins and location of the disulfide bridges in functional units d and g of the β(C)-haemocyanin of Helix pomatia

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 248, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 879-888

  Gielens, Constant ^a   De Geest, Natalie ^a   Xin, Xue Qin ^a   Devreese, Bart ^b   Van Beeumen, Jozef ^b   Préaux, Gisèle ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Laboratorium voor Ontwikkelingsbiologie   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Disulfide bridge; Electrospray mass spectrometry; Functional unit; Haemocyanin; Thioether bridge

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE; HEMOCYANIN;

ARTICLE; HELIX POMATIA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CEPHALOPODA; GASTROPODA; HELIX POMATIA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OCTOPUS VULGARIS; SEPIA OFFICINALIS;

EID: 0030815015     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00879.x     Document Type: Article

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