Fine tuning the N-terminus of a calcium binding protein: α-lactalbumin

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-72

  Veprintsev, Dmitry B ^a,b   Narayan, Mahesh ^b   Permyakov, Serge E ^a   Uversky, Vladimir N ^a   Brooks, Charles L ^b   Cherskaya, Alexandra M ^a   Permyakov, Eugene A ^a   Berliner, Lawrence J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTATION   (Russian Federation)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metal ion binding; Methionyl; Molten globule; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LACTALBUMIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALCIUM ION; GLUTAMIC ACID; METHIONINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BINDING; CATTLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOSTABILITY;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CATTLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ION TRANSPORT; LACTALBUMIN; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TEMPERATURE;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0033213862     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19991001)37:1<65::AID-PROT7>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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