Mini-Hemoglobins from Nemertean Worms

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 436, Issue , 2008, Pages 503-509

  Vandergon, Thomas L ^a   Riggs, Austen F ^b  

^a PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; LIGAND; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMOGLOBIN ANALYSIS; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR SIZE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; WORM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INVERTEBRATE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

NEMERTEA;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOGLOBINS; INVERTEBRATES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 42949149730     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)36028-5     Document Type: Chapter

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