Probing the dynamics of a His73-heme alkaline transition in a destabilized variant of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c with conformationally gated electron transfer methods

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 46, 2011, Pages 10027-10040

  Bandi, Swati ^a,b   Bowler, Bruce E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE TRANSITION; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS; CYTOCHROME C; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON TRANSFER; HISTIDINE LIGANDS; ISO-1-CYTOCHROME; MULTIPLE IONIZATION; NATIVE STATE; PH-JUMP;

AMINO ACIDS; DYNAMICS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; IONIZATION; LIGANDS; PORPHYRINS; RATE CONSTANTS; YEAST;

ALKALINITY;

CYTOCHROME C; HEME; HISTIDINE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IONIZATION; NONHUMAN; PH; PKA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

CYTOCHROMES C1; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HEME; HISTIDINE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

KOBUS;

EID: 81255144005     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi201082h     Document Type: Article

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