Mechanism of fluorescence and conformational changes of the sarcoplasmic calcium binding protein of the sand worm Nereis diversicolor upon Ca 2+ or Mg2+ binding

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1882-1893

  Sillen, Alain ^a   Verheyden, Stefan ^a   Delfosse, Lotte ^a   Braem, Tania ^a   Robben, Johan ^b,c   Volckaert, Guido ^b   Engelborghs, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LABORATORY OF GENE TECHNOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; MAGNESIUM; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CALCIUM BINDING; FLUORESCENCE; METAL BINDING; MUSCLE; NEREIS DIVERSICOLOR; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SARCOPLASM; WORM;

NEANTHES DIVERSICOLOR; NEREIS;

EID: 0041821395     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74616-5     Document Type: Article

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