Mapping the accessibility of the disulfide crosslink network in the wool fiber cortex

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 224-234

  Deb Choudhury, Santanu ^a   Plowman, Jeffrey E ^a   Rao, Kelsey ^b   Lee, Erin ^a   van Koten, Chikako ^a   Clerens, Stefan ^a,b   Dyer, Jolon M ^a,b,c   Harland, Duane P ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Keratin associated proteins; Mapping; Mass spectrometry; Trichocyte keratins

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; KERATIN; KERATIN ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYSTINE;

ALKYLATION; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DISULFIDE BOND; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; WOOL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DOMESTIC SHEEP; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PEPTIDE MAPPING;

MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYSTINE; KERATINS, HAIR-SPECIFIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; WOOL;

EID: 84937566802     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24727     Document Type: Article

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