Proteins in electric fields and pressure fields: Basic aspects

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology

Volumn 1386, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 255-288

  Kohler M ^a   Friedrich, J ^a   Fidy, J ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Chromophore protein interaction; Compressibility; Hole burning; Inhomogeneous broadening; Pressure tuning; Single molecule spectroscopy; Stark spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOPHORE; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ELECTRICITY; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PRESSURE; PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0037653186     PISSN: 01674838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4838(98)00098-3     Document Type: Review

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