Conformational studies on Arabidopsis sulfurtransferase AtStr1 with spectroscopic methods

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 388, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-59

  Bartels, Andrea ^a   Forlani, Fabio ^b   Pagani, Silvia ^b   Papenbrock, Jutta ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

3 mercaptopyruvate; Arabidopsis thaliana; Circular dichroism; Mutagenesis; Thiosulfate; Tryptic digestion

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; SULFUR; SULFURTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIGESTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SULFUR; SULFURTRANSFERASES; TRYPSIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33846182572     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2007.006     Document Type: Article

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