Reversible voltammograms and a Pourbaix diagram for a protein tyrosine radical

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 9739-9743

  Berry, Bruce W ^a,b   Martínez Rivera, Melissa C ^a   Tommos, Cecilia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Protein voltammetry; Proton coupled electron transfer

Indexed keywords

ALPHA3Y PROTEIN; HYDROGEN; PROTEIN; RADICAL; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; POTENTIOMETRY; POURBAIX DIAGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VOLTAMMOGRAM;

ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; PROTEINS; TYROSINE;

EID: 84862536489     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1112057109     Document Type: Article

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