Homo-dimeric spherulin 3a: A single-domain member of the βγ-crystallin superfamily

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-94

  Kretschmar, Michael ^a   Mayr, Eva Maria ^a   Jaenicke, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

crystallin superfamily; Greek key motif; Long term stability; Physarum polycephalum; Two state model

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; LENS PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLONE; CROSS LINKING; CYTOSOL; DNA DENATURATION; DOMINANT GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEAT TREATMENT; HUMAN; LENS; MOULD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID RENATURATION; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLINS; DIMERIZATION; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

CHONDROMYCES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYXOGASTRIA; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; SPHERULES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0032906690     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.012     Document Type: Article

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