Fluorescence Study of the Conformational Properties of Recombinant Tick Anticoagulant Peptide (Ornithodorus moubata) Using Multifrequency Phase Fluorometry

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 785-791

  Sillen, Alain ^a   Vos, Rita ^a   Engelborghs, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ORNITHODORUS;

PEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TICK ANTICOAGULANT PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETRY; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TICK;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETRY; KINETICS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TICKS;

EID: 0030293924     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1996.tb01835.x     Document Type: Article

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