Spectroscopic and Crystallographic Characterization of bis-Histidyl Adducts in Tetrameric Hemoglobins

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 436, Issue , 2008, Pages 425-444

  Vergara, Alessandro ^a,b   Vitagliano, Luigi ^b   Verde, Cinzia ^c   di Prisco, Guido ^c   Mazzarella, Lelio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN BIOCHEMISTRY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH PROTEIN; HEME; HEMOGLOBIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HEMOPROTEIN; HISTIDINE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRICITY; FISH; HEMICHROME; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTATICS; FISH PROTEINS; FISHES; HEMEPROTEINS; HEMOGLOBINS; HISTIDINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 42949162118     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)36024-8     Document Type: Chapter

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