Conformational toggling of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c in the oxidized and reduced states

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Lan, Wenxian ^a   Wang, Zhonghua ^b,d   Yang, Zhongzheng ^a   Zhu, Jing ^a   Ying, Tianlei ^b   Jiang, Xianwang ^c   Zhang, Xu ^c   Wu, Houming ^a   Liu, Maili ^c   Tan, Xiangshi ^b   Cao, Chunyang ^a   Huang, Zhong Xian ^b  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^d CHINA WEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYTOCHROME C; CYTOCHROME C PEROXIDASE; HEME; HISTIDINE; ISOCYTOCHROME C1; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYTOCHROME C1; FUNGAL PROTEIN; IRON;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REDUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APOPTOSIS; BINDING SITES; CYTOCHROMES C1; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; IRON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 80555139961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027219     Document Type: Article

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