Studies of the erythrocyte spectrin tetramerization region

Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 571-585

  Park, Sunghyouk ^a   Mehboob, Shahila ^b   Luo, Bing Hao ^b   Hurtuk, Michael ^b   Johnson, M E ^a   Fung, L W M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

EPR; Erythrocyte; NMR; Recombinant Peptides; Spectrin; Tetramerization

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS;

PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SPECTRIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTRIN;

EID: 0035236645     PISSN: 14258153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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