Immunological and biochemical evidence that blepharismin is not a prosthetic group

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 669-673

  Podestà, Adriano ^a,b,c   Gioffré, Domenico ^b   Grossi, Tommaso ^a   Montagnoli, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c Dept Vet Anat Biochem/Physiol   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 [(3 CHOLAMIDOPROPYL)DIMETHYLAMMONIO] 1 PROPANESULFONIC ACID; BINDING PROTEIN; BLEPHARISMIN; CELL EXTRACT; PIGMENT; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CILIATE; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; ELUTION; GEL; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE; IRRADIATION; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRODUCT RECOVERY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTOZOON;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; PERYLENE; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL;

BLEPHARISMA JAPONICUM; CILIOPHORA; HESPERIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034191817     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)071<0669:IABETB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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