Role of Met80 and Tyr67 in the low-pH conformational equilibria of cytochrome c

Biochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 5967-5978

  Battistuzzi, Gianantonio ^a   Bortolotti, Carlo Augusto ^a   Bellei, Marzia ^a   Di Rocco, Giulia ^a   Salewski, Johannes ^b   Hildebrandt, Peter ^b   Sola, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONAL EQUILIBRIUM; COOPERATIVE TRANSITIONS; CYTOCHROME C; ELECTRONIC ABSORPTION; HYDROGEN BONDING NETWORK; IRON ATOMS; LOW IONIC STRENGTH; MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISMS; MOLTEN GLOBULE; MOLTEN GLOBULE STATE; PH VALUE; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPIN STATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; WILD TYPES;

AMINO ACIDS; HYDROGEN BONDS; IONIC STRENGTH; LIGANDS; PORPHYRINS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

CYTOCHROME C; HEMOPROTEIN; HISTIDINE; IRON; METHIONINE; PROTEIN VARIANT; TYROSINE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HYDROGEN BOND; IONIC STRENGTH; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; PROTON TRANSPORT; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; WILD TYPE;

CYTOCHROMES C; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METHIONINE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TYROSINE;

EID: 84864434524     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi3007302     Document Type: Article

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