Contribution of disulfide bonds and calcium to molluscan hemocyanin stability

Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 59, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 281-287

  Georgieva, Dessislava N ^a,b   Genov, Nicolay ^b   Perbandt, Markus ^a,c   Voelter, Wolfgang ^d   Betzel, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disulfide; Hemocyanin; Rapana thomasiana

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; RAPANA; RAPANA THOMASIANA;

EID: 1942541181     PISSN: 09395075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/znc-2004-3-428     Document Type: Article

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