Structural Stability as a Probe for Molecular Evolution of Homologous Albumins Studied by Spectroscopy and Bioinformatics

Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 313-325

  Ahmad, Ejaz ^a   Sen, Priyankar ^a   Khan, Rizwan Hasan ^a  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Chemical denaturant; Circular dichroism; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Free energy; Molecular evolution; Molecular modeling

Indexed keywords

GUANIDINE; SERUM ALBUMIN; UREA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CATTLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; RABBIT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GUANIDINE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; RABBITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERUM ALBUMIN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS; UREA;

EUTHERIA; HOMINIDAE; LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SUIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 80955158812     PISSN: 10859195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12013-011-9214-4     Document Type: Article

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