Probing pH and pressure effects on the apomyoglobin heme pocket with the 2′-(N,N-dimethylamino)-6-naphthoyl-4-trans-cyclohexanoic acid fluorophore

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2903-2914

  Sire, Olivier ^a   Alpert, Bernard ^a   Royer, Catherine A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEME; MYOGLOBIN; SOLVENT;

ABSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE; POLARIZATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTON TRANSPORT;

EID: 0030048522     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79860-0     Document Type: Article

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