Purification, crystallization, NMR spectroscopy and biochemical analyses of α-phycoerythrocyanin peptides

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 269, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 5046-5055

  Wiegand, Georg ^a   Parbel, Axel ^b,c   Seifert, Markus H J ^a   Holak, Tad A ^a   Reuter, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Amersham Biosciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy transfer; Photochemistry; Phycobilisomes; Phycoerythrocyanin; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PHYCOERYTHROCYANIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PHYCOBILIPROTEIN; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASTIGOCLADUS LAMINOSUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYCOBILISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTALLIZATION; FORMIC ACIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHYCOBILINS; PHYCOBILISOMES; PHYCOCYANIN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EMBRYOPHYTA; MASTIGOCLADUS LAMINOSUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036411681     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.03221.x     Document Type: Article

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