Fluorescence quenching in the DsbA protein from Escherichia coli: Complete picture of the excited-state energy pathway and evidence for the reshuffling dynamics of the microstates of tryptophan

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 253-263

  Sillen, Alain ^a   Hennecke, Jens ^b,d   Roethlisberger, Daniela ^b   Glockshuber, Rudi ^b   Engelborghs, Yves ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Harvard University ^*  (Belgium)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular mechanics; N bromosuccinimide; Nuclear magnetic resonance structure; Protein dynamics; Time resolved fluorescence; X ray structure

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DISULFIDE BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DISULFIDE-ISOMERASE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 0032738042     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19991101)37:2<253::AID-PROT10>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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