Mass instability in isolated recombinant FixL heme domains of Bradyrhizobium japonicum

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1540-1553

  Satterlee, James D ^a   Suquet, Christine ^a   Bidwai, Anil K ^b,d   Erman, James E ^b   Schwall, Linda ^d   Jimenez, Ralph ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION;

FERRIHEME LIGANDS; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; REMOTE LABORATORIES;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEMOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM;

EID: 38949178848     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi701672m     Document Type: Article

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