The synucleins are a family of redox-active copper binding proteins

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-47

  Davies, Paul ^a   Wang, Xiaoyan ^a   Sarell, Claire J ^c   Drewett, Alex ^a   Marken, Frank ^b   Viles, John H ^c   Brown, David R ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C-TERMINUS; COORDINATING LIGANDS; COPPER (II); COPPER CENTERS; COPPER-BINDING PROTEINS; HIGH AFFINITY; N-TERMINALS; NANOMOLAR AFFINITY; REDOX CYCLING; REDOX-ACTIVE; SYNUCLEIN; THERMODYNAMIC STUDIES;

AMINO ACIDS; PROTEINS; STOICHIOMETRY;

COPPER;

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; BETA SYNUCLEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; COPPER; HISTIDINE; SYNUCLEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; BETA-SYNUCLEIN; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; COPPER; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; GAMMA-SYNUCLEIN; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN BINDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78650872712     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi101582p     Document Type: Article

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