Differential response of basal and tetrahydrobiopterin-stimulated activities of placental type III nitric oxide synthase to sodium dodecyl sulphate: Relation to dimeric structure

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1165-1172

  Tóth, Miklós ^a   Kukor, Zoltán ^a   Sahin Tóth, Miklós ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimerization; Endothelial nitric oxide synthase; Primordial placenta; Sodium dodecyl sulphate; Tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE DISRUPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEMBRANE BINDING; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031743075     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.12.1165     Document Type: Article

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