A thermal unfolding study of plastocyanin from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Phormidium laminosum

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 46, 2004, Pages 14784-14791

  Feio, Maria J ^a   Navarro, José A ^a   Teixeira, Miguel S ^b   Harrison, David ^c,d   Karlsson, B Göran ^c,d   De La Rosa, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PH EFFECTS;

THERMAL UNFOLDING; THERMOPHILIC CYANOBACTERIUM; THERMOPHILIC ORGANISMS;

PROTEINS;

PLASTOCYANIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OXIDATION; PH MEASUREMENT; PHORMIDIUM LAMINOSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STANDARDIZATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; COPPER; CYANOBACTERIA; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HEAT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLASTOCYANIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHORMIDIUM; PHORMIDIUM LAMINOSUM;

EID: 8744232059     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi048655q     Document Type: Article

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