Molecular Probes: What Is the Range of Their Interaction with the Environment?

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 467-472

  Lesch, H ^a   Schlichter, J ^a   Friedrich, Josef ^a   Vanderkooi, J M ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; CYTOCHROME C; GLASS; GLYCEROL; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHROMATOPHORE; COMPRESSION; DENATURATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE TUNING HOLE BURNING EXPERIMENT; PROCESS MONITORING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SPECTROSCOPY; STATIC MEAN SQUARE DISPLACEMENT; TUNING CURVE;

EID: 0347949633     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74124-7     Document Type: Article

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