pH and ionic strength dependence of protein (Un)folding and ligand binding to bovine β-lactoglobulins A and B

Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 51, 2002, Pages 15415-15422

  Beringhelli, Tiziana ^a   Eberini, Ivano ^b   Galliano, Monica ^b   Pedoto, Armando ^a   Perduca, Massimiliano ^c   Sportiello, Alessandro ^a   Fontana, Elena ^a   Monaco, Hugo L ^c   Gianazza, Elisabetta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACIDS; HYDROPHOBICITY; IONIC STRENGTH; MONOMERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PH EFFECTS; PROTEINS; STOICHIOMETRY;

DENATURATION;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

BETA LACTOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CATTLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HYDROPHOBICITY; IONIC STRENGTH; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PH; PKA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; STOICHIOMETRY;

ANIMALS; ANIONS; APOPROTEINS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATTLE; CHLORIDES; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINS; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTOGLOBULINS; LIGANDS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; OLEIC ACID; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; UREA;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0346668369     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi020493f     Document Type: Article

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