Cloning, expression, and spectroscopic characterization of Cucumis sativus stellacyanin in its nonglycosylated form

Protein Science

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2184-2192

  Nersissian, Aram M ^a   Mehrabian, Zara B ^b   Nalbandyan, Robert M ^b   Hart, P John ^a   Fraczkiewicz, Grazyna ^c   Czernuszewicz, Roman S ^c   Bender, Christopher J ^d   Peisach, Jack ^d   Herrmann, Reinhold G ^e   Valentine, Joan Selverstone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b H Buniatian Institute of Biochemistry National Academy of Sciences of Armenia   (Armenia)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

blue copper protein; cDNA; Cucumis sativus; expression; inclusion bodies; refolding; spectroscopy; stellacyanin

Indexed keywords

SECRETORY PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL INCLUSION; CELL WALL; CUCUMBER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

CUCUMIS SATIVUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHUS; TOXICODENDRON VERNICIFLUUM;

EID: 10544242533     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560051105     Document Type: Article

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