Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of a 40 kDa calcium binding protein specifically expressed in plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-9

  Iwasaki, Wakana ^a   Sasaki, Hiroshi ^b   Nakamura, Akio ^c   Kohama, Kazuhiro ^c   Tanokura, Masaru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

40 kDa calcium binding protein; Calcium binding protein; Crystallization; Physarum polycephalum; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CALCIUM ION; EDETIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PLASMODIUM; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHONDROMYCES; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM;

EID: 0032820524     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022438     Document Type: Article

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