Why is glycine not a part of the osmoticum in the urea-rich cells?

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-70

  Khan, Sheeza ^a   Bano, Zehra ^a   Singh, Laishram R ^b   Hassan, Md Imtaiyaz ^a   Islam, Asimul ^a   Ahmad, Faizan ^a  

^a JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Counteracting osmolytes; Protein function; Protein stability; Stabilizing osmolytes; Urea stress

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; RIBONUCLEASE A; UREA;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84872900666     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986613804096874     Document Type: Article

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