Demonstration of two independently folding domains in the α subunit of bacterial luciferase by preferential ligand binding-induced stabilization

Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 3105-3112

  Noland, Brian W ^a,b   Baldwin, Thomas O ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; NEGATIVE IONS; POLYPEPTIDES;

ANION BINDING;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ANION; CATION; CHLORIDE ION; LUCIFERASE; PHOSPHATE; SULFATE; UREA;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ENZYME STABILITY; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING;

ANIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATIONS, MONOVALENT; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME STABILITY; LIGANDS; LUCIFERASES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOSPHATES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SALTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFATES; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037452956     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi026725s     Document Type: Article

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