The Putative "Nucleation Site" in Human H-Chain Ferritin Is Not Required for Mineralization of the Iron Core

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 4332-4337

  Bou Abdallah, Fadi ^a   Biasiotto, Giorgio ^b   Arosio, Paolo ^b   Chasteen, N Dennis ^a  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEATION; OXIDATION; PROTEINS;

IRON BINDING; LIGANDS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

CERULOPLASMIN; CORE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; FERRITIN A1; FERRITIN A2; FERRITIN H CHAIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; IRON; LIGAND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; IRON TRANSPORT; METAL BINDING; MINERALIZATION; NUCLEATION SITE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; STOICHIOMETRY;

ALANINE; CERULOPLASMIN; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FERRITINS; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; IRON; KINETICS; MINERALS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 1842583828     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0498813     Document Type: Article

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