Purification and characterization of the 16-kda heat-shock-responsive protein from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus vulcanus, which is an α-crystallin-related, small heat shock protein

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 406-416

  Roy, Sanjit K ^a   Hiyama, Tetsuo ^a   Nakamoto, Hitoshi ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Heat shock protein; Molecular chaperone; Small heat shock protein; Thermophile; crystallin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; CITRATE SYNTHASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME INACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

SYNECHOCOCCUS VULCANUS; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 0033152833     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00380.x     Document Type: Article

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