Characterization of Protein Targets of Mammalian Thioredoxin Reductases

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 474, Issue , 2010, Pages 245-254

  Turanov, Anton A ^a   Hatfield, Dolph L ^b   Gladyshev, Vadim N ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMOBILIZED ENZYME; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; THIOREDOXIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIVER; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYMES, IMMOBILIZED; HUMANS; LIVER; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THIOREDOXIN-DISULFIDE REDUCTASE; THIOREDOXINS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 79958051614     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(10)74014-3     Document Type: Chapter

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