New equations for redox and nano-signal transduction

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-68

  Hancock, John T ^a   Desikan, Radhika ^a   Neill, Steven J ^a   Cross, Andrew R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Glutathione; Nano switches; Nernst equation; Redox potentials

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE;

REDOX POTENTIAL;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CYTOPLASM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0345276418     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2003.08.003     Document Type: Article

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