Optical spectroscopic investigation of the alkaline transition in umecyanin from horseradish root

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 49, 2005, Pages 16090-16097

  Delfino, Ines ^a   Sato, Katsuko ^b   Harrison, Mark D ^b   Andolfi, Laura ^a   Bizzarri, Anna Rita ^a   Dennison, Christopher ^b   Cannistraro, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COBALT; FLUORESCENCE; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

LIGAND; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPIC;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

COPPER PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMINE; HISTIDINE; PLANTACYANIN; UCLACYANIN; UMECYANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FLUORESCENCE; HORSERADISH; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PH; PHASE TRANSITION; PKA; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTON TRANSPORT; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REDUCTION;

ARMORACIA; COPPER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METALLOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NITROGEN; PLANT ROOTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SULFUR;

ARMORACIA RUSTICANA;

EID: 28944434753     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi051702+     Document Type: Article

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