Cysteine accessibility during As3+ metalation of the α- and β-domains of recombinant human MT1a

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 433, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 477-483

  Irvine, Gordon W ^a   Summers, Kelly L ^a   Stillman, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arsenic binding; Cysteine modification; Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; Metal induced folding; Metallothionein; Molecular dynamics; Molecular mechanics

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BENZOQUINONE; CYSTEINE; METALLOTHIONEIN I; BENZOQUINONE DERIVATIVE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MT1A PROTEIN, HUMAN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMAN; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARSENIC; BENZOQUINONES; CYSTEINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876482977     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2013.03.026     Document Type: Article

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