Studies on C-phycocyanin from Cyanidium caldarium, a eukaryote at the extremes of habitat

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics

Volumn 1456, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 99-107

  Eisele, Leslie E ^a   Bakhru, Sasha H ^a   Liu, Xuemei ^a   MacColl, Robert ^a   Edwards, Mercedes R ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biliprotein; Cyanidium caldarium; High temperature eukaryote; Phycocyanin

Indexed keywords

PHYCOCYANIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DENATURATION; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; RED ALGA; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGAE, RED; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; PHYCOCYANIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

ALGAE; CYANIDIUM CALDARIUM; EUKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0033985786     PISSN: 00052728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2728(99)00110-3     Document Type: Article

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