High-resolution X-ray Structures of Human Apoferritin H-chain Mutants Correlated with Their Activity and Metal-binding Sites

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 365, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 440-452

  Toussaint, Louise ^a   Bertrand, Luc ^b   Hue, Louis ^b   Crichton, Robert R ^a   Declercq, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b DE DUVE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bacterioferritin; ferritin; ferroxidase centre; iron storage; X ray structures Zn binding site

Indexed keywords

APOFERRITIN; ASPARTIC ACID; CERULOPLASMIN; METAL; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; IRON STORAGE; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33751517409     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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