Defusing redox bombs?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 35, 2015, Pages 10821-10822

  Polizzi, Nicholas F ^a   Migliore, Agostino ^b   Therien, Michael J ^b   Beratan, David N ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

CATALYSIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NOTE; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

HUMANS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEINS; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

EID: 84940993338     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1513520112     Document Type: Note

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