Analysis of tryptophan fluorescence lifetimes in a series of human serum albumin mutants with substitutions in subdomain 2A

Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 115-122

  Siemiarczuk, Aleksander ^a   Petersen, Charles E ^b   Ha, Chung Eun ^b   Yang, Jinsheng ^b   Bhagavan, Nadhipuram V ^b  

^a Photon Technology International Canada Inc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding site; Human serum albumin; Protein structure; Site directed mutagenesis; Time resolved fluorescence; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 24644444675     PISSN: 10859195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/CBB:40:2:115     Document Type: Article

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