Picosecond Dynamics of a Peptide from the Acetylcholine Receptor Interacting with a Neurotoxin Probed by Tailored Tryptophan Fluorescence

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-157

  Chowdhury, Pramit ^a   Gondry, Muriel ^b   Genet, Roger ^b   Martin, Jean Louis ^c   Ménez, André ^b   Négrerie, Michel ^c   Petrich, Jacob W ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE ET BIOSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; COBROTOXIN; CYSTEINE; DEHYDRO N ACETYLTRYPTOPHANAMIDE; DISULFIDE; N,N DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; NEUROTOXIN; PEPTIDE; SOLVENT; TRYPTOPHAN 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; TRYPTOPHAN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHROMATOPHORE; CHROMOBACTERIUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SNAKE; STEADY STATE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TORPEDO;

CHROMOBACTERIUM; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; NAJA; NAJA NIGRICOLLIS; SERPENTES; TORPEDO; TORPEDO MARMORATA;

ANIMALS; NEUROTOXINS; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TORPEDO; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 0038672775     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2003)077<0151:PDOAPF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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