Fluorescence studies of the carboxyl-terminal domain of smooth muscle calponin: Effects of F-actin and salts

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 335-341

  Bartegi, Aghleb ^a   Roustan, Claude ^b   Kassab, Ridha ^a   Fattoum, Abdellatif ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Actin calponin interaction; Calponin C terminal domain; Calponin conformational changes

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; CALPONIN; F ACTIN;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CROSS LINKING; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

2-NAPHTHYLAMINE; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; RABBITS; SALTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0040602015     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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