Recombinant expression, biophysical characterization, and cardiolipin-induced changes of two Caenorhabditis elegans cytochrome c proteins

Biochemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 653-666

  Vincelli, Amber J ^a   Pottinger, Danielle S ^a   Zhong, Fangfang ^a   Hanske, Jonas ^a,c,d   Rolland, Stéphane G ^b,d   Conradt, Barbara ^b,d   Pletneva, Ekaterina V ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARDIOLIPINS; CONFORMATIONAL ENSEMBLE; CYTOCHROME C; DENATURED STATE; DISTANCE DISTRIBUTIONS; ELEGANS; HEME LIGATION; PEROXIDASE ACTIVITIES; RECOMBINANT EXPRESSION; REDOX PROPERTY; SPECTROSCOPIC TOOL; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ENERGY TRANSFER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIPOSOMES; MAMMALS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PORPHYRINS;

RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CARDIOLIPIN; CYTOCHROME C; CYTOCHROME C2.1; CYTOCHROME C2.2; HEME; HISTIDINE; LIPOSOME; PEROXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARDIOLIPINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROMES C; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GUAIACOL; HEME; HORSES; KINETICS; LIPOSOMES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PEROXIDASES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84873857633     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi3014938     Document Type: Article

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