A reduction of protein specific motions in co-ligated myoglobin embedded in a trehalose glass

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-176

  Cordone, Lorenzo ^a   Galajda, Peter ^a,c   Vitrano, Eugenio ^a   Gassmann, Alexandra ^b   Ostermann, Andreas ^b   Parak, Fritz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYMYOGLOBIN; GLASS; HEMOGLOBIN; MYOGLOBIN; PROTEIN; TREHALOSE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DYNAMICS; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; MOTION; PHOTOLYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; GLASS; HORSES; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MYOGLOBIN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROSCOPY, MOSSBAUER; TEMPERATURE; TREHALOSE;

EID: 0031889847     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002490050123     Document Type: Review

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