Flavodoxins: Sequence, folding, binding, function and beyond

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 855-864

  Sancho, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drug target; Electron transfer; Ferredoxin; Flavodoxin; FNR; Helicobacter pylori; Protein folding and stability; Protein ligand interaction

Indexed keywords

FLAVODOXIN;

CLINICAL RESEARCH; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; FLAVODOXIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUKARYOTA; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 33646052947     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-005-5514-4     Document Type: Review

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