Conformational characterization of human eukaryotic initiation factor 2α: A single tryptophan protein

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 390, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 273-279

  Sreejith, R K ^a   Yadav, Viveka Nand ^b   Varshney, Nishant K ^c   Berwal, Sunil K ^a   Suresh, C G ^c   Gaikwad, Sushama M ^c   Pal, Jayanta K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CELL SCIENCE   (India)

^c NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; heIF2 ; K562 cells; Molten globule; Steady state and time resolved fluorescence

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 2ALPHA; TRYPTOPHAN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; TRYPTOPHAN;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 70350129684     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.09.106     Document Type: Article

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