Essential cysteine-alkylation strategies to monitor structurally altered estrogen receptor as found in oxidant-stressed breast cancers

Analytical Biochemistry

Volumn 320, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-31

  Meza, Jose E ^a,b,c   Scott, Gary K ^a   Benz, Christopher C ^a,b   Baldwin, Michael A ^b  

^a BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CELLS; COVALENT BONDS; DISEASES; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTAGENS; OXIDANTS; PROTEOLYSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CYSTEINE ALKYLATIONS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRIES; HUMAN BREAST CANCER CELLS; PREPARATION PROCEDURES; PROTEOLYTIC DIGESTION; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS; THIOL-DISULFIDE EXCHANGE REACTION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVITY;

ALKYLATION;

CYSTEINE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMISTRY; DENATURATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MONITORING; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

EID: 0041695302     PISSN: 00032697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-2697(03)00296-3     Document Type: Article

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