X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Bacteriorhodopsin. Determination of the Positions of Mercury Label at Several Engineered Cysteine Residues

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 768-773

  Oka, Toshihiko ^a   Kamikubo, Hironari ^a   Tokunaga, Fumio ^a   Lanyi, Janos K ^b   Needleman, Richard ^c   Kataoka, Mikio ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; CYSTEINE; MERCURY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NON-PROGRAMMATIC; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIORHODOPSINS; CYSTEINE; MERCURY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0031296422     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb03222.x     Document Type: Article

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