Reconstitution, characterisation and mass analysis of the pentacylindrical allophycocyanin core complex from the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 278, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 369-388

  Ducret, Axel ^a,c   Müller, Shirley A ^b   Goldie, Kenneth N ^b   Hefti, Andreas ^b   Sidler, Walter A ^a   Zuber, Herbert ^a   Engel, Andreas ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c MERCK FROSST CENTRE FOR THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allophycocyanin; Mass analysis; Photosynthesis; Phycobilisome; Scanning transmission electron microscope

Indexed keywords

ALLOPHYCOCYANIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHYMOTRYPSIN; HELICASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANABAENA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120;

EID: 0344863070     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1678     Document Type: Article

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