Interaction of 7-azatryptophan and β-(1-azulenyl)-alanine with a nitroxyl radical

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 527, Issue , 2003, Pages 731-737

  Formaggio, Fernando ^a   Sartori, Elena ^a   Toffoletti, Antonio ^a   Corvaja, Carlo ^a   Moroder, Luis ^b   Toniolo, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

7 AZATRYPTOPHAN; ALANINE DERIVATIVE; BETA (1 AZULENYL)ALANINE; FREE RADICAL; NITROXYL RADICAL; PEPTIDE; TRYPTOPHAN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMATOPHORE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 1042291106     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0135-0_86     Document Type: Conference Paper

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