Mutations of ferritin H chain C-terminus produced by nucleotide insertions have altered stability and functional properties

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 881-885

  Ingrassia, Rosaria ^a   Gerardi, Gianmario ^a   Biasiotto, Giorgio ^a   Arosio, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ferritin; Hereditary ferritinopathies; Iron metabolism; Iron uptake; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SOLUBILITY;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERRITINS; HUMANS; IRON; KINETICS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SOLUBILITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33745752320     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvj101     Document Type: Article

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