Spectroscopic characterization of a green copper site in a single-domain cupredoxin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Roger, Magali ^a   Biaso, Frédéric ^a   Castelle, Cindy J ^b   Bauzan, Marielle ^c   Chaspoul, Florence ^d   Lojou, Elisabeth ^a   Sciara, Giuliano ^a   Caffarri, Stefano ^e   Giudici Orticoni, Marie Thérèse ^a   Ilbert, Marianne ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CNRS and Aix Marseille University   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e University of Aix Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; COPPER; CUPREDOXIN; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE PARTNER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AZURIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ACIDOPHILE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PH MEASUREMENT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; AZURIN; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COPPER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 84903287359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098941     Document Type: Article

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