THz time domain spectroscopy of biomolecular conformational modes

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 3797-3805

  Markelz, Andrea ^a   Whitmire, Scott ^a   Hillebrecht, Jay ^b   Birge, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY;

MUTATIONS;

MEDICINE;

ALPHA HEXATHIOPHENE; BACTERIORHODOPSIN; LYSOZYME; MYOGLOBIN; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOMOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; CALCULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME MECHANISM; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TETRAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; TIME; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HEART MUSCLE; INSTRUMENTATION; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIORHODOPSINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROWAVES; MURAMIDASE; MYOCARDIUM; MYOGLOBIN; OPTICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037038536     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/21/318     Document Type: Article

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