Three-dimensional domain-swapped oligomers of ribonuclease A: Identification of a fifth tetramer, pentamers and hexamers, and detection of trace heptameric, octameric and nonameric species

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1764, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 44-54

  Gotte, Giovanni ^a   Laurents, Douglas V ^b   Libonati, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

Author keywords

RNase A hexamer; RNase A oligomer; RNase A pentamer; RNase A tetramer; Three dimensional domain swapping

Indexed keywords

DIVYNILSULFONE; OLIGOMER; POLYMER; RIBONUCLEASE A; SULFONE DERIVATIVE; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GEL FILTRATION; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PANCREAS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASE, PANCREATIC; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SULFONES;

BOVINAE;

EID: 33644841204     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2005.10.011     Document Type: Article

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