The role of amino-acid residues in the hydrophobic patch surrounding the haem group of cytochrome f in the interaction with plastocyanin

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1732-1742

  Gong, Xiao Song ^a   Wen, Jiang Qi ^b   Gray, John C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR HOKKAIDO REGION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytochrome f; Electron transfer; Photosynthesis; Plastocyanin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; CYTOCHROME F; HEME; PLASTOCYANIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROPHOBICITY; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BINDING SITES; BRASSICA; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYTOCHROMES; CYTOCHROMES F; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEME; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASTOCYANIN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. RAPA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034021279     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01168.x     Document Type: Article

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