Cysteines β93 and β112 as probes of conformational and functional events at the human hemoglobin subunit interfaces

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 1 I, 1999, Pages 88-97

  Vásquez, Gregory B ^a   Karavitis, Michael ^b   Ji, Xinhua ^a,e   Pechik, Igor ^a,d   Brinigar, William S ^c   Gilliland, Gary L ^a   Fronticelli, Clara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Temple University   (United States)

^d ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CHLORIDE ION; CYSTEINE; GLYCINE; HEMOGLOBIN A; HEMOGLOBIN CHAIN; HEMOGLOBIN VARIANT; TETRAMER; WATER; DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; INORGANIC SALT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BOHR EFFECT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HUMAN; OXYGEN AFFINITY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; GENETICS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BIOPHYSICS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYSTEINE; ELECTROSTATICS; HEMOGLOBIN A; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SALTS; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 0032607505     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77180-8     Document Type: Article

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