Toxoplasma gondii ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase: Role of ionic interactions in stabilization of native conformation and structural cooperativity

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1879-1888

  Singh, Kulwant ^a   Bhakuni, Vinod ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Inter domain interactions; Ionic interactions; pH effects; Stability; Structural cooperativity; Structural domain

Indexed keywords

FERREDOXIN NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE REDUCTASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTROSTATICS; ENZYME STABILITY; FERREDOXIN-NADP REDUCTASE; FLAVIN-ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; GUANIDINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NADP; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TEMPERATURE; TOXOPLASMA; TRYPTOPHAN;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 44349139540     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21872     Document Type: Article

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