Arginine: Its pKa value revisited

Protein Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 752-761

  Fitch, Carolyn A ^a   Platzer, Gerald ^b   Okon, Mark ^b   Garcia Moreno, Bertrand E ^a   McIntosh, Lawrence P ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

equilibrium acid dissociation constant; guanidinium; NMR spectroscopy; pH titration; pKa value; potentiometry; protein electrostatics; tautomer

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ARGININE GUANIDINIUM; GUANIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACID; LIPID BILAYER; PROTEIN;

ACID DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID MEMBRANE; MICROENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PH; PKA; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATIC ELECTRICITY; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYER;

ACIDS; ARGININE; BINDING SITES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84945546884     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.2647     Document Type: Article

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