Investigation of the mechanism of iron release from the C-lobe of human serum transferrin: Mutational analysis of the role of a pH sensitive triad

Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 3701-3707

  Halbrooks, Peter J ^a   He, Qing Yu ^a,c   Briggs, Sara K ^a   Everse, Stephen J ^a   Smith, Valerie C ^b   MacGillivray, Ross T A ^b   Mason, Anne B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; PH EFFECTS; PROTEINS;

TRANSFERRINS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

IRON; PLASMA PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IRON KINETICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENDOCYTOSIS; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSFERRIN;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037426355     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi027071q     Document Type: Article

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