C-type cytochrome formation: Chemical and biological enigmas

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 999-1007

  Stevens, Julie M ^a,b,c   Daltrop, Oliver ^a,d   Allen, James W A ^a   Ferguson, Stuart J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d St Edmund Hall ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; CYTOCHROME C; HEME; PROTEIN; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COVALENT BOND; ENZYME STRUCTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOCHROMES C; HEME; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 11244338080     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar030266l     Document Type: Article

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