Studies on Thermal Denaturation of Fish Apomyoglobins using Differential Scanning Calorimetry, Circular Dichroism, and Fluorescence

Fisheries Science

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 933-937

  Chanthai, Saksit ^a   Ogawa, Masahiro ^a   Tamiya, Toru ^a   Tsuchiya, Takahide ^a  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; Differential scanning calorimetry; Myoglobin; Protein stability; Thermal denaturation; Tryptophan fluorescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342382548     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.62.933     Document Type: Article

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