Article
Structural heterogeneity of blue copper proteins: an EPR study of amicyanin and of wild-type and Cys3Ala/Cys26Ala mutant azurin.
European biophysics journal : EBJ - 1 Jul 2001
Guzzi R, Stirpe A, Verbeet M P, Sportelli L
Abstract excerpt
A comparative investigation of the effects of cooling rate and solvent physicochemical properties on the structural heterogeneity of wild-type and disulfide bond depleted azurin (Cys3Ala/Cys26Ala) and of amicyanin has been performed by EPR spectroscopy and computer simulation. By describing the spectral features of the EPR spectra in terms of Gaussian distributions of the components of the g and A tensors of the...
Topics
- Alanine
- Azurin
- Bacterial Proteins
- Copper
- Cysteine
- Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy
- Metalloproteins
- Models, Statistical
- Mutation
- Protein Conformation
