Quantification of Anti-Aggregation Activity of Chaperones: A Test-System Based on Dithiothreitol-Induced Aggregation of Bovine Serum Albumin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Borzova, Vera A ^a   Markossian, Kira A ^a   Kara, Dmitriy A ^b   Chebotareva, Natalia A ^a   Makeeva, Valentina F ^a   Poliansky, Nikolay B ^c   Muranov, Konstantin O ^c   Kurganov, Boris I ^a  

^a BACH INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c EMANUEL INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; ARGININE; ARGININE AMIDE; ARGININE DERIVATIVE; ARGININE ETHYL ESTER; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CHAPERONE; DITHIOTHREITOL; PROLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIAGGREGATION ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DISPERSION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLINS; ANIMALS; ARGININE; CATTLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DITHIOTHREITOL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FRACTIONATION, FIELD FLOW; KINETICS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PARTICLE SIZE; PROLINE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84883775027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074367     Document Type: Article

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