Single-domain metallothioneins: Evidence of the onset of clustered metal binding domains in Zn-rhMT 1a

Biochemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2461-2471

  Summers, Kelly L ^a   Sutherland, Duncan E K ^a   Stillman, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING AFFINITIES; CLUSTER FORMATIONS; DOMAIN SPECIFICITY; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAL BINDING DOMAIN; METALATED SPECIES; METALLOTHIONEINS; PREFERENTIAL BINDING;

AMINO ACIDS; BINDING ENERGY; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; IONS; MAMMALS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEINS;

ZINC;

CYSTEINE; METALLOTHIONEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SULFUR; THIOL; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAL BINDING; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HUMANS; KINETICS; METALLOTHIONEIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; ZINC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84875979289     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi400021b     Document Type: Article

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