Biophysical analysis of the interaction of toxic metal ions and oxidants with the zinc finger domain of XPA

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 649, Issue , 2010, Pages 399-410

  Hartwig, Andrea ^a   Schwerdtle, Tanja ^b   Bal, Wojciech ^c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

arsenic; cadmium; electrospray mass spectrometry; fluorescence spectroscopy; toxicity; Xeroderma group A protein

Indexed keywords

METAL; OXIDIZING AGENT; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM GROUP A PROTEIN; ZINC; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; HUMANS; METALS; OXIDANTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM GROUP A PROTEIN; ZINC; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 80054950096     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-753-2_25     Document Type: Article

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