Protein flexibility and conformational state: A comparison of collective vibrational modes of wild-type and D96N bacteriorhodopsin

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1269-1277

  Whitmire, S E ^a   Wolpert, D ^a   Markelz, A G ^a   Hillebrecht, J R ^b   Galan, J ^b   Birge, R R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DENSITY; ELASTICITY; FAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FILM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HYDRATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATION; WILD TYPE;

ABIES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0041843665     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74562-7     Document Type: Article

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