Linker chains of the gigantic hemoglobin of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris: Primary structures of linkers L2, L3, and L4 and analysis of the connectivity of the disulfide bonds in linker L1

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 174-187

  Kao, Wen Yen ^a,f   Qin, Jun ^b,g   Fushitani, Kenzo ^c   Smith, Sandra S ^a   Gorr, Thomas A ^d   Riggs, Claire K ^a   Knapp, James E ^e   Chait, Brian T ^b   Riggs, Austen F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f Baylor College of Medicine ^*  (Taiwan)

^g BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Annelid; Calcium; Extracellular hemoglobin; Hexagonal bilayer; Invertebrate; Low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor; Polar zipper; Scaffolding proteins

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CALCIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; GLOBIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; HISTIDINE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; POLYPEPTIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DISULFIDE BOND; EARTHWORM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEMOGLOBIN ANALYSIS; HEMOLYMPH; LIGAND BINDING; METAL BINDING; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CALCIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; DITHIOTHREITOL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEME; HEMOGLOBINS; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOCHAETA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, LDL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANNELIDA; INVERTEBRATA; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 33645023750     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20852     Document Type: Article

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